Black Spirits: Festival Of New Black Poets In America (1972)

The fourth of 8 LPs released by Black Forum, a short lived subsidiary of Motown Records (1970-1973)

Tracklist
–Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)* Introduction
–Kali (24) Circles
–Kali (24) Black Is
–Kali (24) Nigger, Do You
–Kali (24) This Little Light Of Mine
–Kali (24) Ladybird
–Kali (24) What's Happening To The Heros
–Johari Amini A Folk Fable For My People
–Clarence Major Kitchen Chair Poem #5
–David Henderson (5) Boppin
–Norman Jordan The Poet The Dreamer
–Norman Jordan Popsicle Cold
–Norman Jordan One-Eyed Critics
–Norman Jordan Brothers
–Norman Jordan The Struggle Must Go On
–Norman Jordan Clairvoyance
–Norman Jordan One For All
–Norman Jordan Mind And Soul After Dark
–Norman Jordan Allah
–Norman Jordan Above Karma
–Aski Mohammad Toure Notes From A Guerilla Diary
–The Original Last Poets* And See Her Image In The River
–The Original Last Poets* Song Of Ditta, Part II
–Stanley Crouch Pimp's Last Mack: A Death Request
–Jackie Earley One Thousand Nine Hundred & Sixty Eight Winters
–Amus Moore Hip Men
–Larry Neal Holy Days
–Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)* A History Poem


"A three-day festival of new Black poetry in America, the New Black Poets in America, produced by Woodie King at a cost of $11,000 of his own money made from modeling assignments, played to more than 2,000 Blacks in the Brooklyn-Manhattan areas. The festival, which attracted Black poets from across the U. S., included Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Kali (daughter of authoress Verta Mae Gros-venor), James W. Thompson, Norman Jordan, Aski Mohammad Toure, Jayne Cortez, Jackie Earley, Rhonda Davis, Johari Amini, David Henderson, Don L. Lee, Quincy Troupe, Ed Bullins, Nikki Giovanni, Sonja Sanchez, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Larry Neal, Keoropotse Kgositsile and The Original Last Poets. Though the festival was not a financial success, King has a commitment from Motown Records to put the festival on wax and a repeat is set for next year" --From Jet Magazine April 6, 1971

Recorded Live at the Apollo Theater/ Produced by Woodie King, Jr.
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