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Letter: Who Will Tell Our Stories? The Case for the Black Artist League

The assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, though tragic and earth-shaking, gave birth to what was known as the “Artistic Sister of the Black Power Movement.” Led by the late Poet, Playwright and Activist, Amiri Baraka, The Black Arts Movement began to take form in Harlem during the mid-1960s. It started as a literary movement and later grew to include

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