Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing_ Editors Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal and Video Edu. (A Black Arts Movement Learning Series)

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Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing is the defining work of the Black Arts Movement, *Black Fire* is at once a rich anthology and an extraordinary source document. Nearly 200 selections, including poetry, essays, short stories, and plays, from over 75 cultural critics, writers, and political leaders, capture the social and cultural turmoil of the 1960s. In his new introduction, Amiri Baraka reflects nearly four decades later on both the movement and the book.

8 Video Playlist, including HAP 112 – Poems That Kill – the Black Arts Movement (#2)

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The Black Arts Movement, Leroi Jones and Larry Neal Biographies

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HAP 104-In Unity Lies Strength – Kwame Nkrumah [History of African Philosophy Player] and A Companion to African Philosophy Ed. by Kwasi Wiredu (eBook) and SUPPLEMENTAL_ Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology of Decolonization, by Kwame Nkrumah (eBook)

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42 Video Playlist. Video Edu.
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From the Preface: …This volume is intended to be a comprehensive anthology of essays on the history of African philosophy, ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary, and on all the main branches of the discipline, including logic, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, and politics…

SUPPLEMENTAL: Kwame Nkrumah_Consciencism_Philosophy and Ideology of Decolonization

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A ‘major disturbance’ broke out August 21 at San Quentin Prison after two convicts, one of them George Jackson (R), a Soledad Brother, tried to escape from their rock-walled enclosure. Jackson was killed in the escape attempt, the other prisoner gave up and was recaptured. The Soledad Brothers are three black convicts charged with slaying a guard at the Soledad State Prison in January 1970. They are (L-R): Fleeta Drumgo, 26; John W. Cluchette, 28; and Jackson, 29.