Last updated on January 18, 2022
We discuss the effects of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination on the performance poetry/spoken word community in the 1960s. We use poems/music created by Maya Angelou, Oscar Brown Jr., Melvin Van Peebles, The Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron & Amiri Baraka and there trailblazing creative styles that sets the stage for the form of poetry that we know as Rap.
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