The Black art movement in Florida is getting a huge pay day thanks to lawmakers that were able to secure $30 million in funding for African American history museums that could use the financial help within the state.

Etsy is the Amazon of supplies, vintage and handmade materials. Etsy’s homepage boasts about its ability to connect you directly with artisans from all around the world, and it’s true; toddler’s clothing from Italy, jewelry from California, dresses from Turkey aren’t even the half of it. An amazing thing about Etsy is its community of black-owned shops […]

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A cacophony of bagpipes, African drums and jazz riffs creatively blended— much like the elements of an Amiri Baraka poem — at the Saturday funeral for the activist-writer and a founder of the Black Arts Movement, who died earlier this month. The service, held at Newark Symphony Hall, featured poetry, music […]

The first thing that strikes many about Amiri Baraka‘s poetry, most especially his later works, is that it carried the sharp tone of an oppressed,…