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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

was a key player in the Black Art movement, arguing that it could be abstract and did not need to be overtly political. One of his other works, Middle Passage, is travelling outside of the US for ...

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.

55 years after its disastrous Harlem Renaissance show that featured no art by black artists, the New York Met has another show of the modern art movement's work 160 pieces depict the realities of ...

Artists Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien and Eddie Chambers - whose work features in a new exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary - talk to Anne McElvoy. Show more Artists Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien, Eddie ...