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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 comprised Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin, Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oy…

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Artist details

Type
Group
Area
United States
Founded
May 19th, 1968
Genres
Labels
Ropeadope
Charly Records
Blue Thumb Records
Restless Records
Douglas Music
Last updated: December 17th, 2013·MusicBrainz

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