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Black Arts Movement: Black Arts Movement

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because there is still so much I would like to know about the civil rights movement and this is one aspect that i have never heard about. it will be interesting to to learn more about a topic that is not widely covered in history classes or news discussions.

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Lead section: This article starts out by concisely explaining what the Black Arts Movement (BAM) was and when it took place. While it gave a quick overview of events, people and places there could still be a little more information given about the major topic sections to follow. There is no information in the overview that is not present in the rest of the article itself and as a concise section it gives just the right amount of detail to get the reader interested in reading the rest of the article in its entirety.

content: The content in this article is relevant, well researched and focuses on a number of topics involving the Black Arts Movement. The body of the work is divided evenly into sections that highlight topics such as individuals who impacted the movement, the influence and legacy of the movement and the locations where it took place. this information seems to be up to date but there can always be some improvements on the information in order to help others understand the subject matter.the content in this article is about an offshoot branch of the civil rights movement in the wake of racial inequality during the time of Jim Crow Laws. The content is about the often marginalized African American population in the united states at a time where there was not a lot of recognition or opportunity for the recognized minority.

Tone and Balance: This article does have a neutral point of view that uses the third party tone. There are very little claims that might be viewed as heavily biased to a particular position or ideal. the article does a good job of representing all the major and minor viewpoints in an accurate way while focusing on the broader views of the community and the highly recognized information that the public should have access to in order to gain a better understanding of the movement that is covered in the article. It does not try to persuade the audience in favor of one position or the other but rather uses events to enlighten the reader about a part of history that was not widely covered by other methods.

Sources and references: The facts in this article seems to be backed up by secondary sources well enough that if need be the reader would be able to look for the source themselves to understand where the information came from and be able to fact check themselves. they do reflect the available literature on the topic and give a good understanding of how this topic is relevant to the civil rights movement. The references seem to be from a diverse range of authors and sources of information. with forty sources placed throughout the article the reader is able to distinguish that the article has been well researched and highlights important individuals who impacted the movement providing links to the articles describing those individuals in their own Wikipedia articles also in the Civil Rights Movement WikiProjects. Some of these links do not work or have not been fully vetted so there may need to be more vetting done and some changes in the sources that are used to verify some of the information given.

Organization & writing quality: This article is a little long but it is concise clear and somewhat easy to read. it does not look to have many grammatical or spelling errors but that is just at first glance. It is very organized with several major headings and three or four subheadings under each of the major section headings. These subheadings are bold and gives the impression that there is a new topic in that section that is being discussed. Each section enhances the reader's understanding of the topic and the different aspects of the topic that are viewed as important.

Images& media: The images in the article help highlight some of the important people who impacted the movement itself and pique the interest of the reader to keep them reading. there could be more photos and media when talking about the theater aspect of the movement. All images appear to adhere to wikipedia's copyright regulations and are placed in a very appealing way to the reader.

Talk Page discussion: The talk page is mainly conversations about edits that could and have been made with one or two different responses about the class ratings and classifications of the article itself. one talked about a part of the article that was triggering while others made suggestions on changes that could be made. there were two peer reviews. the entire talk page helps give a bigger understanding of the edits that have been made to the article in the past ten years. the last edit was in 2019 so there could be some more edits done to update the article. This is a C-Class rated Article in three different WikiProjects; WikiProject: African disapora, Wikiproject: The Civil Rights Movement, and Philosophy. in the first two projects mentioned it is considered of high importance while in the philosophy project it is of low importance. While this discussion page lets other editors and readers know how the edits and research is being utilized in classes it is not a subject that is often talked about which makes it an important subject to highlight for those who have never heard about this part of a historic movement such as the Civil Rights Movement.

Overall impressions: This is a good article based on the content even though it could use some updating. There have been some minor edits done over the years but as the years go by the information should be checked and edited on a consistent basis in order to keep the most relevant data current. The Black Arts movement was nicely organized and written in a manner that allowed the reader to follow the overall pattern of the topic and covered a wide range of sections in the movement itself as well as how it impacted the world after it took place. The article is well developed but could always be edited and changed as the information and sources become more or less relevant.