The Black Arts Movement (BAM) encompassed a group of artists, musicians, novelists, and playwrights whose work combined innovative approaches to literature, fil

An encyclopedic reference of African American history and culture.

It is impossible to understand America without understanding the history of African Americans. In nearly seven hundred entries, the Encyclopedia of African Amer

With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American

Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesc