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Saturday Open Thread: The Black Arts Movement
Today's focus is the fierce Carolyn Rodgers, a revolutionary Chicago poet of the Black Arts Movement. Carolyn Rodgers(1940-2010), a Chicago poet who first learned her trade in the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) Writer's Workshop meetings and Gwendolyn Brooks's Writers Workshops, was distinctive as a new black woman poet in the late 1960s, when she … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: The Black Arts Movement
Friday Open Thread: The Black Arts Movement
Good Morning POU! Today we feature perhaps, the single most important person that provided black poets and authors an avenue for their works during the Black Arts Movement. Some of the most influential and powerful works of the era would not have been published if not for Dudley Randall and Broadside Press. Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: The Black Arts Movement
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Thursday Open Thread: The Black Arts Movement
Good Morning POU! It was the Black Arts Movement that galvanized a generation of young black writers into rethinking the purpose of African American art. Rejecting any notion of the artist that separated him or her from the African American community, the Black Arts movement engaged in cultural nation building by sponsoring poetry readings, founding community theatres, … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: The Black Arts Movement