In 1975, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes laid down a melodic mandate that applies to our times: “Wake up, everybody / No more ...
Founded during the heyday of the Black Arts movement and two years after the Watts uprising, it would go on to feature artists that included Betye Saar, Noah Purifoy and John Outterbridge.
To soundtrack the current sociopolitical moment, Sinkane looked to the legacy of the 70s -- from funk music to the Black Arts ...
Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora and makes a major contribution to the histories of Black ...
The Chicago-born rapper and celebrated lyricist has kicked off the last leg of his cross-country tour after releasing his ...
I n the 1970s, a group of Black women artists felt excluded from the white-dominated world of art and a male-dominated Black ...
The "soft life" movement champions tranquility and joy while challenging long-held expectations about Black women's ...
Novelist Bernardine Evaristo on the complex man at the heart of the black arts movement in 1960s America and how that movement inspired her as a black British writer.
The 29-year-old minister of Montgomery, Alabama's First Baptist Church, Ralph Abernathy took a leading role in the 1955-56 bus boycott in that city, and had his home and church bombed as a result.