Black Arts Movement

Cultural  

1. The cultural wing of the Black Power Movement prominent in the 1960s and 1970s. It inspired the establishment of black-owned publishing houses, magazines and journals, art institutions, and African-American studies within universities. Well-known writers and poets associated with the movement include Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, and Amiri Baraka.

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Example Sentences

Following the 1960s Black Arts Movement and ‘90s gangsta rap, jerkin’ joins the ranks as one of the most influential art movements to come out of the city.

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Next year it will stage a traveling exhibition that just opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., titled “Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985.”

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I grew up on the edges of Outterbridge’s remarkable orbit of influence in Southern California’s Black Arts Movement; the potential loss was a staggering thought to process.

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When my mother was stricken with cancer and I told Nikki that I’d need an academic leave, she offered an independent study on the Black Arts Movement she’s helped define and scheduled our meetings around Mama’s care.

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Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and ‘70s who was dubbed “the Princess of Black Poetry,” has died.

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