a new black arts movement presentshome birth: witches brew revolutionary matriarchy: witches brew, witches knew. mothers are not sick, so why hospitalization?engage in our communiversity around home birth, vaccinations and parenting. join our village as it takes one and many to raise our youth and a generation of revolutionary souls to unfold whats untold.www.anewblackartsmovement.comlogo by Ziedah Diata  photo by Debra Berniera new black arts movementin the event we actually have our home birth, we will conduct a webinar on this day to facilitate the discussion.location casa del soul-ría172 hamilton avenuestaten island new york 10301a new black arts movement is painting a new aesthetic, one in which we liberate ourselves from our oppressors. we are revolutionary matriarchal maroons.this is a movement building upon the foundations of the black arts movement of the 1960’s founded by Baba Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, all freedom fighters, and our many other ancestors long before and after in the struggle for liberation.we have launched the reinvention, re-imagining the significance and necessity of a black arts movement for today that is: internationalist, revolutionary matriarchal, and eco-socialist. a movement supporting majority oppressed nationality leadership and valuing the principles and characteristics of indigeneity. a new black arts movement views art as equivalent to politics.free the land. free ALL political prisoners.a new black arts movement is a community built on the continuation of an ancestral legacy to persist and exist beyond resistance. it is a movement that redefines, re-envisions, re-imagines, a black centered consciousness and way of being. a new black arts movement is the movement of the maroons. maroons and maroonage embody existence, resistance, and all indigenous struggles for self-defense and self-determination. a new black arts movement is:… the continuation of an ancestral legacy of divinity, a movement that remembers and draws from our purpose. our purpose is to live in harmony with mother earth, holding her center to our being and live in accordance with the universal law of nurture, nature, and respect to all beings. we strive to remember an indigenous way, a way that acknowledges and considers seven generations before us and seven generations ahead to assist in the spiritual and physical evolution of our people.…the continuation of an ancestral legacy to honor womyn. to be revolutionary matriarchs and re-socialize men to be mothers and nurturers. to see beyond gender and evolve beyond the conditions and limitations society has placed upon all of us, especially our sisters, mothers, and daughters....the continuation of an ancestral legacy to practice self-determination. an overstanding of the need for a maroon nationality identity and leadership to determine the destiny and path to liberation according to respective communities throughout the world that choose to resist and exist against and outside the walls of an oppressive state.… the continuation of an ancestral legacy to recognize the power of art being equivalent to politics. executing and witnessing the impact art has on the transformation of the soul and the necessity of science to engage in effective revolutionary politics....a new black arts movement’s purpose is to prefigure a new society guided by the principles of; mother earth centeredness, revolutionary matriarchy, maroon nationality / identity leadership, indigeneity, and art equivalent to politics. ::freedom of mind, body, and spirit::