"Description: Baltimores Black Arts Then & Now brings to life the Chicory Revitalization Project, a public humanities initiative that revives Baltimores historic Chicory magazine. From 1966 to 1983, Chicory served as a powerful voice for working-class Black communities, capturing their thoughts, struggles, and dreams through unedited poetry and street chatter. Dubbed "the most authentic microphone of black folks talking ever devised" by the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, Chicory emerged from the liberalism of the War on Poverty and the militance of the Black Arts Movement. Since 2017, a diverse group of former Chicory editors, scholars, librarians, poets, teachers, and young writers have collaborated to use Chicory as a catalyst for intergenerational dialogue on social justice, race, and place. The Chicory Revitalization Project has brought this vision to life through a traveling exhibit, writing workshops, public events, the digitization of the magazines archive and a new version of the magazine. Their most ambitious project, the exhibit "Soul of the Butterfly: Chicory Magazine and Baltimores Black Arts Activism," has toured since 2022. In 2024, the magazine relaunched as part of The Chicory Project"-- Provided by publisher.