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

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.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

Acclaimed poet at the forefront of the Black Arts Movement in the US, known across the world for her defiant yet endearing writing about race, gender, sex and love.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2024

But if you’re lucky enough to find a copy of the 1978 original, you’ll experience them as Reed intended, in call-and-response with illustrations by the Black Arts Movement assemblage artist Betye Saar.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

Sanchez was a founding member of the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s and is widely regarded as a pioneering teacher of Black studies.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2022

The editors argue that Hurston “was a proto-black cultural nationalist, a forerunner of an artistic and political philosophy that would become central tenets of the Black Arts Movement, born circa 1966.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022