Lorrie L Smith

New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement

During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture—which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement—...

Stop Means Stop

This is just a little story about learning how to stop and listen. Little Charlie is all energy and motion, he never sits still, much to the consternation of his family and teachers. Finally, when he learns that "stop" is actually an active word, he gains an important life skill

America Rediscovered : Critical Essays on Literature and Film of the Vietnam War (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 986)

"he moved into a furnished room"

TROUPE, QUINCY: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed.</i>

This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The length of the article is 621 words. The artic...

America Rediscovered: Critical Essays on Literature and Films of the Vietnam War