Creative Resistance: Why SOBSF Con is good for the “Conscious” Community

Wish I could make it to this event! Well, hopefully next year?[image error]

Chronicles of Harriet

The Black Arts Movement was the artistic branch of the Black Power movement. It was started in Harlem by writer and activist Imamu Amiri Baraka. Time magazine describes the Black Arts Movement as the “single most controversial movement in the history of African-American literature– possibly in American literature as a whole.”

Both inherently and overtly political in content, the Black Arts Movement was the on...