BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: A MINI DOCUMENTARY

This short documentary is about the Black Arts Movement, the cultural explosion of Black art that emerged in the 60s and 70s. This movement was led by politically motivated poets, artists, dramatists, musicians, and writers who used their works to intertwine arts and activism. This documentary specifically focuses on Howard University's own, Amiri Baraka, whom history considers the father of the Black Arts Movement. While watching this documentary, allow yourself to consider the canon of Black art and how this movement has molded and shaped modern-day Black arts and culture.

[@MAdams-ey4if]

Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis! Those 2 were magical!

[@blacksilence7968]

Excellent job putting together this important and much needed documentary. The Black Arts ovement was such a creatively rich period in world history. The recently published book, TRYIN TIMES from the Pyramids to the Projects was born out of this very powerful movement. Below is a poem from the book. (avil/Amazon)
REPARATIONS
Stop interfering with our way...
Can the one that destroys, ever really repair?
Do we have it within us to repair ourselves
or have we been so destroyed, there is no hope and the God has to settle this?
Niggas been crying for reparations for the longest... Will The ones whose economy that is built on free labor now construct a new way, and tear down the old?
Can the one who's education is constructed on half truths and lies, now be humble and honest? Can the nature of the beast, who has perpetuated endless horrors, now change its nature and start doing good?
Have we've been so fooled into thinking it's appropriate to put a Band-Aid on a gushing wound?
Reparations... ask the native Americans and the Indigenous people all over our planet, about how reparations are working for them.

[@quentinturner3753]

YOU GO GIRL!! YOU BETTA EDUCATE! ❤

[@Kali4Action]

A few times in the mid-60s, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis used to visit my grandparent's best friends in Montclair to eat BBQ, laugh, and have fun....they were elegant, eloquent, and unforgettable...

[@justdavid541]

Thank you for this content !

[@thembelihledunjana]

Thank you! This was really helpful with the work I am currently completing for my studies. From South Africa, with love

[@RisingPhoenix2023]

Great video.. thank you so much..

[@clarab6812]

Amazing Video. Thank you!!!

[@willowica]

this is a great documentary!

[@reubenza3781]

I loved you in Peripheral!

[@thomasstone2596]

Well done Little Sister!

[@streetstamptv6387]

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[@Myphone-sg4jn]

And whar came after the Black Arts Movement, from the Generation Xer's?

[@Dav-nx8ej]

i know its been months but what is the poem in the first scene called.