The Black Arts Movement



The Black Arts Movement

In a 1968 essay, "The Black Arts Movement", Larry Neal proclaimed the Black Arts Movement was “the aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power concept”. The Black Arts movement, usually referred to as a 1960s movement, solidified in 1965 and broke apart around 1975. The movement's major players were Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones, Adrienne Kennedy, Ron Karenga, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, and many more Black artists at this particular time in American history. This Black intellectual revolution examined and targeted many assumptions in the artistic world, specifically the role of the text, the timelessness ...