Online Resources

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Fiction

The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the 21st Century

By Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Robert Alexander

Parable of the Sower book cover

By Octavia E. Butler

An American Marriage

By Tayari Jones

An Intimation of Things Distant: The Collected Fiction of Nella Larsen

By Nella Larsen

Lot: Stories

By Bryan Washington

Homegoing

By Yaa Gyasi

Nonfiction

Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement

By Verner D. Mitchell

AFRICOBRA : Experimental Art Toward a School of Thought

By Wadsworth A. Jarrell

The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture

By Jo-Ann Morgan

What is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists

By Eric Porter

Prefiguring Postblackness: Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s

By Carol Bunch Davis

Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums

By  Damien M. Sojoyner

Streaming Media

The Negro Ensemble Company

Bearden Plays Bearden, Part 1. The Art of Life of Romare Bearden

Black is the Color

How it Feels to be Free

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