Collection at library honors black artists, poets Feb 15, 2008
Tucked away on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library, the SU Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) presents "The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement," an exhibition featuring prominent black writers and artists of the Black Arts Movement during the 1960s and 1970s ... Often paired with the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Arts Movement created a platform for minority voices and initiated a debate about American values in this country ... Baraka has often been called "the founder of the... (Daily Orange, NY)
Blasts from the Past Nov 26, 2007
One of the most prominent artists of the Black Arts Movement and founder of the African American Master Artist-in-Residence Program at Northeastern University, Dana Chandler retired from his long professorship at Simmons College a few years ago. He now lives in Gallup, New Mexico, where his youngest son, Dana James, is making his own art and studying Native-American history. (Boston Globe)
AUTHOR APPEARANCEMichael Chabon Nov 5, 2007
" Proceeds will benefit the literary lab 826 Valencia. $19. 8 p.m. Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco. (415) 392-4400, . T SPOKEN WORD HENRY ROLLINS From disaffected teen to punk-rock hero to record mogul to handsome movie actor to TV interviewer to anti-war agitator to pro-gay spokesman to anti-faux-celebrity to pro-feminist to video artist to stand-up comic to riveting artist of the spoken word - Henry Rollins is above all else a provocateur situated in the heart of the... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Poetry And Music Oct 27, 2007
" After the Watts riots, poets and artists started to settle in Los Angeles, many fueled by a black arts movement that brought to prominence writers such as Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks. Cortez cites Brooks as a poetic influence, along with Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo and Aim Csaire. In 1967 Cortez moved to New York so that Denardo could be closer to his dad. Her poem "I Am New York City" conveys some of her feelings. It starts out: i am new york city here is my brain of hot... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Sekou Sundiata, 58; poet and spoken-word artist explored life's adversities Jul 28, 2007
By Jocelyn Y. Stewart, Times Staff Writer July 28, 2007 The bridge that connects the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s with spoken word artists of today was crafted by poets like Sekou Sundiata. In the 1960s Sundiata was a young boy living in Harlem, coming of age during a time when the movement's giants Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez and Nikki Giovanni were transforming poetry. (Los Angeles Times)
Independently wealthy May 7, 2007
Their sole, and superb, recording, 1997's "Love in Exile," was a powerful statement of jazz in the post-Coltrane tradition, steeped in the legacy of the Black Arts movement while wearing its agenda lightly. The same bittersweet brew of urban exhilaration and melancholy pervades the work of Washington's new venture, the Harlem Arts Ensemble, and for good reason: After many years in Boston, Washington now teaches at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and his key Roxbury associates have... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Nikki Giovanni and Charles Bukowski: New collections from poetry's icons Apr 17, 2007
Giovanni, as her fans know, emerged during the Black Arts Movement, which lasted from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. She, like other key figures of that era, vividly portrayed the experience of African-Americans, particularly the struggles and injustices they faced. (Christian Science Monitor)
Nikki Giovanni: 'You have to learn to trust yourself' Jan 30, 2007
At 63, Nikki Giovanni remains a lively icon of the black arts movement of the 1960s and '70s that gave birth to hip-hop culture. A pioneer of spoken-word recordings since 1971's "Truth Is on Its Way," she still finds inspiration in old Negro spirituals, the songs that gave slaves comfort and often blazed a coded path to freedom. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
U. Minnesota prof recognized for work with black community theater Jun 29, 2006
Bellamy became a student of the Black Arts Movement, the artistic sister to the Black Power political movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The movement saw art as a way to bring the community together and push for social change, and Bellamy took that ethos with him when he founded Penumbra in 1976. (U-Wire.com)
Celebrating black writers year-round Feb 10, 2006
11], the sanctuary will offer free workshops and discussions at the Community College of Philadelphia, highlighting authors and scholars who emerged during the Black Arts Movement (BAM) ... Among workshops and panel discussions by local filmmaker Louis Massiah and author James Smethurst (who documented BAM in his 2005 book, The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s) will be a stage reading by 13-year-old Dashiya Wallace, a member of Philadelphia Young Playwrights. (Philly.com -- Entertainment)
