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Nkombo a “little magazine” of the Black Arts Movement

Literary magazines, also known as “little magazines” have been publishing experimental literature and non-conformist writings since the...

A City’s Trash, an Artist’s Treasure

As a cataloger, I get a glimpse of every title that enters our library collection. This includes books, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets,...

Umbra Writers Workshop, 1962-1964

New Orleans-born poet, essayist, and playwright Thomas Covington Dent was a founding member a writer’s collective the Umbra Writers’...

Black Arts Movement Exhibition Opens

When the Amistad Research Center was founded in 1966, the Black Arts Movement (BAM) was barely a year old. The Center and BAM share not...

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