Since the early 1960s Askia Muhammad Touré has been a leading architect of the black arts movement. As poet, essayist, and editor, he has responded on many levels to the culture of black liberation. His poems and essays, widely published in the Black Scholar, Soulbook, Black Theatre,Black World, Freedomways, and Essence, embody the ideology of a people seeking to reclaim their images and history from the arbiters of Western culture. Touré, known as a poet whose vision is as expansive as is his love for black people, represents the determination of contemporary black writers to shed "the white plaster" of their "negroness" in exchange for a deeper sense of blackness and a new world view. Touré has also been a moving spirit behind the emergence of several revolutionary journals, including Black Dialogue, Liberator Magazine, and the Journal of Black Poetry (now known as Kitabu...