The Last Poets

The Last Poets is a poetry collective and musical group that arose in the late 1960s as part of the African-American civil rights movement and black nationalism. The name was inspired by revolutionary South African poet Keorapetse Kgositsile who believed he was in the last era of poetry before guns took over.

The group originally composed of Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin, Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun… More