. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "We???ll engage literature in its various forms through the work of novelists, poets, playwrights, cultural critics, and musicians such as Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, Henry Dumas, Gil Scott-Heron, Ed Bullins, Ishmael Reed, Ntozake Shange, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Nina Simone, Sun Ra, Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln and more." . . .