Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of
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Black Arts Movement
The History of African American Visual Culture
If you were lucky enough to see “The Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” an
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Amiri Baraka, Black Music, and Black Modernity
I first encountered Amiri Baraka in Fred Moten’s In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. I know
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Art for the People’s Sake: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement
The past five years have brought numerous fifty-year Civil Rights and Black Power Movement commemorations to the fore. Last year,
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The Black Arts Movement and “A Nation Within a Nation”
*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within
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