By: Heather Stoddard

 A period of time from  According to The Academy of American poets BAM is referred to as” African American artists within the movement sought to create politically engaged work that explored the African American cultural and historical experience.”

 It began after the assassination of Malcolm X  The “leader” of movement LeRoi Jones moved from Manhattan’s Lower East Side uptown to Harlem.  Jones started the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School (BARTS)

 The Umbra Workshop- A collective of young black writers in Manhattan’s Lower East Side  Uptown Writers Movement

 Harlem  California’s Bay Area- Journal of Black Poetry and the Black Scholar  Chicago-Detroit axis- Negro Digest/Black World and Third world press in Chicago, and Broadside press in Detriot

 Black theater groups and Black poetry performances and journals developed  Black theaters served as the focus of poetry, dance, and music performances in addition to formal and ritual drama. They were also venues for community meetings, lectures, study groups, and film screenings.

 The decline began in 1974  The Black Arts Movement declined with the Black Power movement.  Internal and External problems allowed for the dismantle of the movement