The artists were frustrated that their work was not been seeing in mainstream venues, and was not included in the Black Arts Movement of the time.
He is one of the best known playwrights to come from the Black Arts Movement.
By working with the general community, the festival strives to showcase the talents of Black creative culture and to perpetuate the goals of the Black Arts Movement.
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The poems he had written during his time in prison were so effective that Dudley Randall, a poet and owner of Broadside Press, published Knight’s first volume of verse, which he called Poems from Prison, and hailed Knight as one of the major poets of the Black Arts Movement.
An integral part of the Black Arts movement of the 1970s, Evans had his first plays, the one acts Orrin and Sugarmouth Sam Don’t Dance No More performed in 1972 at the Crossroads Theatre, a professional playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey.