Episode 2

Novelist and poet Bernardine Evaristo continues her exploration of the complex and controversial man - Amiri Baraka, who played a key role in developing the Black Arts Movement in the USA.

She looks back at how the energy of that cultural phenomenon in 1960s America, inspired her as an emerging Black writer in 1980s Britain.

In the last of two programmes, Bernardine travels to Newark, the city where Amiri Baraka spent much of his life, she talks to the poets Sonia Sanchez and Nikki Giovanni – two luminaries of the Black Arts Movement

And she returns to the UK to ask whether it's time for a new Black Arts Movement in this country.

Presenter - Bernardine Evaristo

Contributors:

Professor Komozi Woodward
Sonia Sanchez
Nikki Giovanni
Charlie Hanson
Paulette Randall
Patricia St. Hilaire

Producer: Ekene Akalawu

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.