Poems, articles, and podcasts that explore African American history and culture. Check out some of their collections:
Poems, articles, and podcasts that explore African American history and culture.
Even though its founding documents profess an egalitarian vision of opportunity and equal treatment of its citizens, rights and liberties deemed inalienable, the United States has struggled to live up to its avowed values of fairness and equality and to extend the privileges of freedom that animated its foundational cause for self-determination and sovereignty after hard-won battles against a progressively tyrannical British monarchy.
The Black Arts Movement began—symbolically, at least—the day after Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965. The poet LeRoi Jones (soon to rename himself Amiri Baraka) announced he would leave his integrated life on New York City’s Lower East Side for Harlem.
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