CURRENT ISSUE

 

Volume 11 • Number 6 • April 2018

 

On the cover: 2016 Black Arts Movement Conference poster by Dwayne D. Conrad

 

● Dedication
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● A Tale of Two Conferences
by Kim McMillon
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● Dedication of Light to Amiri Baraka
by Kim McMillon
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Poetry

● A Tribute to Amiri Baraka
by Adilah Barnes
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● A California Love Story
by Jasmine Marshall Armstrong
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● I Know We Can!!!,
Solid As A Rock (Dura Como Una Piedra).
My Last Will and Testament
by Avotcja
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● Honoring A Man of Greatness
by Poetess Kalamu Chaché
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● The Cradle of Man and Blues for Amiri
by Genny Lim
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● Remembering Our Libraries
by Kim McMillon
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● Spider Woman and the Twin War Godz
Lynching Tree Memory
Cotton & the Lynching Tree Gang
by Ayodele Nzinga
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● He Shout!!
Tribute to Amiri Baraka
by Lakiba Pittman
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● Kwansaba: Poets Sonia Sanchez & Jessica
Care Moore Fly to Planet Ferguson 2015
by Eugene Redmond
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● That We May Resurrect
by Gloria Jean Sewell-Murphy
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● Coming of Age in BAM
BAM & Mona Lisa Saloy
by Mona Lisa Saloy
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● More Than Skin-Deep: The Candaces, Autumn in New York, A Jury of Her Peers, Ebb Tide/Autumn Rain, Candace/1, Candace 2/A Profile
by Askia M. Touré
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● Those Left Behind
by Charlotte Hill O’Neal aka Osotunde Fasuyi
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Essays

● A Subaltern Black Woman Sings the Blues: A Blues Aesthetic Analysis Sherley Anne Williams’ Poetry
by Jasmine Armstrong
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● Black Social Movements Past and Present: A Comparative Analysis of the Black Arts Movement and the Hip Hop Movement
by J. Vern Cromartie
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● Black Arts Movement and the Black Aesthetic: Where Do We Go From Here?
by Joyce A. Joyce
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● Whatever Happened to Carolyn M. Rodgers?
by Judy Juanita
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● Black Feminism, The Ancestors Speak, and the Women of the Black Arts Movement
by Kim McMillon
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● Belle New Orleans: The History of Creole Cuisineres
by Zella Palmer
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● The Aesthetics of Blackness: Theology, Aesthetics & Blackness in the Black Arts Movement Western Aesthetics and Blackness
by Damon Powell
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● Black Death: the Long Riotous 60s, Henry Dumas, and Resurrection
by Casey Rocheteau
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● La indigena: Risky Identity Politics and Decolonial Agency as Indigenous Consciousness
by Iris Deana Ruiz
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● Sweeping Conversations: Julie Dash’s Daughters
by Wanda Sabir
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● “That’s Where Sarah Vaughn Lives”: Amiri Baraka, Newark, and the Landscape and Soundscape of Black Modernity
by James Smethurst
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● Dawn-Song and the "Evolution of the Black Aesthetic" An Outline of A Few, Key Concepts/Archetypes/Metaphors
by Askia M. Touré
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● Learning from Undergraduates
by Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
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● Modern Painting, the Black Woman, and Beauty Ideologies: Carrie Mae Weems’ Photographic Series Not Manet’s Type
by Kelsey Rae Winiarski
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Art

● Black Arts Movement Poetry Broadsides: Columbia College Chicago Students
by D. Denenge Akpem
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● Photographs from the Dillard University-Harvard's Hutchins Center Black Arts Movement: Black Power and Struggle for Civil Rights Documentary Photo Exhibit
by Doris Derby
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● Speech From Loss Collaborations
by Jennifer Harge and Rodney A. Brown
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● University of California, Merced
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● Dillard University-Harvard’s Hutchins Center Black Arts Movement Conference
photography by Eric Waters
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● Photos from Black Arts Movement events held by Marvin X, the co-founder of the West Coast branch of the Black Arts Movement
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● Quincy Troupe and Michael Simanga
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