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The Black Arts Poets

The Black Arts Poets, a discussion on the Black Arts Movement, a group of American poets inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and the poets they inspired; Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, and Quincy Troupe. Contemporary poets include Lucille Clifton, Cornelius Eady, Ross Gay, Alice Walker and Kevin Young.

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