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  1. Sep 25, 2024 · Examines the black power movement of the 1960s and 1970s as exemplified by the Modern Black Convention Movement led by Amiri Baraka. In Newark, this movement led to the development of a number of organizations, including the Committee for a Unified NewArk (CFUN), which later became the Newark chapter of the Congress of African People (CAP).

  2. Sep 17, 2024 · Following the assassination of Malcolm X, Baraka distanced himself from the Nation of Islam, but his Nation-themed play A Black Mass, debuted in May 1966 (more than a year after Malcolm’s death), with musical accompaniment by Sun Ra’s Myth Science Arkestra.

  3. Sep 12, 2024 · Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States.

  4. Sep 7, 2024 · When Baraka refused, the governor, working through the state legislature, drafted a statute that eliminated the position [9]. Thus the poetaster, Amiri Baraka, is responsible for New Jersey losing a valuable position meant to allow the voice of poetry to be heard.

  5. Sep 18, 2024 · Amiri Baraka. Amiri Baraka, a prominent figure in the Black Arts Movement and a leading voice in African American literature, used his poetry to confront societal injustice and advocate for Black liberation.

  6. 3 days ago · Originally issued in 1968, A Black Mass was personally distributed by Baraka via a network of radical Black literature bookstores and was not commonly found in the channels that records of the time moved in.

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  8. Sep 12, 2024 · The Black Arts began to fade in the mid-1970s, around the same time that the Black Power movement started its decline. One of the reasons for the end of the Black Arts Movement was a political switch from nationalism to Marxism made by Amiri Baraka and several other BAM leaders.