Black Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics, and fashion that opened the eyes of millions of people across the globe. In the United States, the movement spread like wildfire: high school and college youth organized black student unions; educators created black studies programs; Black Power conventions gathered thousands of people from all walks of life; and books, journals, bookstores, and publishing companies spread Black Power messages and imagery throughout the country and abroad. The Black Arts Movement inspired the creation of some eight hundred black theaters and and cultural centeres, where a generation of writers and artists forged a new and enduring cultural vision.
Race & Art
Lemonade is an hour and five minutes of music, poetry, and references to history, literature, and art.
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Journal NIKA Issue Pages 152 Volume 2011, Number 2Number 29Published : Fall 2011An issue of Nka
- Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art : https://vimeo.com/ondemand/31705/120087374
- Creative Time Presents Kara Walker's “A Subtlety” : https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/creative-time-presents-kara-walker-s-%E2%80%9Ca-subtlety%E2%80%9D/0AFmg1lgGoY_ug
- The Melodrama of “Gone with the Wind” Kara Walker : https://art21.org/read/kara-walker-the-melodrama-of-gone-with-the-wind/
- For all the World to See: Exhibition on Race : https://fatwts.umbc.edu/
- Black Bodies, White Cubes: The Problem With Contemporary Art’s Appropriation of Race: http://www.artnews.com/2016/07/11/black-bodies-white-cubes-the-problem-with-contemporary-arts-appropriation-of-race/
Black Power! The Movement, The Legacy
The year 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of Black Power, one of the least understood and vilified movements in American history. Yet the movement has had a tremendous impact on issues of race, identity, politics, criminal justice, culture, art, and education globally. Black Power’s successes and weaknesses have largely molded the past half century.
Ready for the Revolution: Education, Arts, and Aesthetics of the Black Power Movement
Between 1966 and 1976, young men and women created countless cultural, educational, and social programs under the banner of the Black Power ideology. They developed a new black consciousness that galvanized millions of people in the broadest movement in African American history.