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Joined October 11th, 2011
As 1 of the founders of the cultural movement acknowledged as the Harlem Renaissance, which he virtually defined in his essay, he was modern in his use of jazz rhythms and dialect to depict the existence of city blacks in his poetry, tales, and plays. Acquiring presented the lyrics for the musical Street Scene (1977) and the play that inspired the opera Troubled Island (1989), in the 1960s he returned to the phase with performs that drew on black gospel new music, this kind of as Black Nativity…