Strong Minded Individuals Poetry Jam

S.M.I. Poetry Jam
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Take Me Back

Originally called the New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance was a literary and intellectual flowering that fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s. Critic and teacher Alain Locke described it as a “spiritual coming of age” in which the black community was able to seize upon its “first chances for group expression and self determination.”

With racism still rampant and economic opportunities scarce, creative expression was one of the few avenues available to African Americans in the early twentieth century. Chiefly literary—the birth of jazz is generally considered a separate movement—the Harlem Renaissance, according to Locke, transformed “social disillusionment to race pride.”

By Beth Rowen & Borgna Brunner
Read more: The Birth of the Harlem Renaissance: History & Timeline — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmharlem1.html#ixzz1Op0Wf8Nb

The Great Migration.

He is my black ballerina, color undoubtedly flourishes, neck of a swan, strong and ‘20 feet tall’ in stature.

D.O.P.E Poetry Slam

we have to do what it takes to transcend, becoming stagnant is not an option. Not for me.