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Black Arts Era
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The Black Arts Era refers to the time closely related to the Black Power Movement that focuses on the representation of African Americans in all forms of art such as literature and music. Some refer to it as the Sister of the Black Power Movement.
Mari Evans
Born in 1923 in Ohio
She wrote many poems, children books and contributed to plays such as Eye which was a representation of the Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
She currently lives in Indiana and is 92 years old. Her father encouraged in her writing, as she recalls in her essay "My Father's Passage".
“I am a black woman tall as a cypress strong beyond all definition still defying place and time and circumstance assailed impervious indestructible.”
Born in 1934 in New York City
Her work confronted both racial and sexist issues in America
She identifies herself as a BLACK mother, BLACK sister, BLACK feminist and BLACK lesbian.
She died from cancer in 1992
The Black Unicorn: Poems is one of her most famous books.
As a poet, she is best known for technical mastery and emotional expression, particularly in her poems expressing anger and outrage at civil and social injustices she observed throughout her life.
Her writings are based on the "theory of difference," the idea that the binary opposition between men and women is overly simplistic
Born in 1936
Bisexual
Jordan definitely made an impact during the Black Arts Era because she used her talents in many different avenues. She was an author,teacher and an activist. She is most known for her essay "The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America: Something Like A Sonnet for Phillis Wheatly.
She fights over civil rights, women’s rights, and sexual freedom. June Jordan's addresses topics ranging from family, bisexuality, political oppression, African American identity and racial inequality, and memory.
June Jordan had a distraught relationship with her father. Her father was the first bully she encountered when she was young. June he recalled in Civil Wars: Selected Essays,"... my father was the first regular bully in my life."
Her positive moments in her childhood involves getting an education and moving away to college.
Imamu Amiri Baraka
Born as Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey
Poet, writer, teacher, and political activist
Popular Poems and books: Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, “Somebody Blew up America”,
Classic histories: Blues People: Negro Music in White America (1963)
Father of the Black Arts Movement
Opened the Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem (1965)
Baraka was recognized for his work through a PEN/Faulkner Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, and the Langston Hughes Award from City College of New York. He was awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He died in 2014
He believed that Black artist should follow their own ideas of beauty and value instead of looking to white society for validation
Born as Haki Madhubuti on February 23, 1942 in Little Rock, Arkansas
Poet, professor, and founder of Third World Press
His works deal with issues of racism, violence, stigmatization, and oppression of black people in America as well as the use of Christianity to persuade them to accept their condition.
Popular poems: Think Black, Black Pride, Don't Cry, Scream, We Walk the Way of the New World and Book of Life
He is the founder and director emeritus of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing and the director of the MFA program in Creative Writing, at Chicago State University.
Maya Angelou, orginally named Marguerite Annie Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928. She has published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. In 1954, she danced to calypso music in clubs around San Francisco, including the nightclub the Purple Onion. When she was dancing there she went by the name of "Marguerite Johnson", or "Rita". The advice of her managers and supporters at the Purple Onion caused her to change her professional name to "Maya Angelou", a "distinctive name"that set her apart and captured the feel of her calypso dance performances.