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.

The Chicago-born rapper and celebrated lyricist has kicked off the last leg of his cross-country tour after releasing his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Strain; The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s by Jam es E. Smethurst; Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga, The US Organization and Black Cultural Nationalism by Scot Brown.

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.

The story of the British Black Arts movement is a fascinating one, steeped in the cultural values of modern Britain. As Free Thinking explores how the politics and social changes of the 1980s ...

The Ringling highlights photographs by Danny Lyon and Roy DeCarava who captured different aspects of Black life in mid-20th ...

Black Lives Matter: The three women who founded a global movement The year 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things - not least the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement around the world.