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Caribbean born Harlem, NY based WEUSI artist Ademola Olugebefola (video)

Posted on January 28, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The Harlem-founded Weusi Artist Collective Weusi, a Swahili word meaning blackness, is a distinguished collective of artists established in 1965 against the backdrop of the Black Arts Movement who made African iconic imagery and symbols a central part of their work. Continue reading →

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The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry

Posted on April 17, 2011 by | 2 Comments
This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz’s influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken word poetry. Examining established poets Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and Nathaniel Mackey as well as a generation of up-and-coming contemporary writers and performers, Meta DuEwa Jones highlights how the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality shape the jazz tradition and its representation in poetry. Continue reading →

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A’Lelia Walker, The Kelis Of The Harlem Renaissance

Posted on March 18, 2011 by | 5 Comments

The daughter of Madam C.J. Walker, A’Lelia Walker was the Kelis of the Harlem Renaissance. The arts patron, who loved expensive cars and jewelry. Her legendary “The Dark Tower,” salons (where the County Cullen Library now sits on 136th Street at Lenox Avenue, around the corner from the Shomburg Center for Research), included the sparkling literati of the thriving 1920s black arts movement, including gays and lesbians, wealthy whites who trekked to Harlem. Continue reading →

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The Black Arts Movement (BAM) In Harlem

Posted on February 24, 2011 by | 2 Comments

The Black Arts Movement or BAM is the artistic branch of the Black Power movement. It was started in Harlem by writer and activist Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones). Time Magazine describes the Black Arts Movement as the “single most controversial moment in the history of African-American literature — Continue reading →

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Black Arts Movement Summit 2010 In Harlem

Posted on October 21, 2010 by | 2 Comments

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Sonia Sanchez In Harlem

Posted on July 21, 2009 by | Leave a comment

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Sanchez’ “The Bronx Is Next” and “Sister Son/Ji” Have Not Been Performed Since 1968 and 1969
Displaying the bold spirit of celebrated poet and Black Arts Movement playwright Sonia Sanchez, The Riverside Theatre and BeBop Theatre Collective are presenting performances of two one-act plays from early in Sanchez’ career that have not been performed since the late ‘60s, running from Thursday, August 6 to Monday, August 17, at The Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Ave. (bet. 120th & 122nd St.), Morningside Heights.

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