Which statement best describes the Black Arts Movement and name a key poet?

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The main idea here is recognizing what the Black Arts Movement was about and naming a central poet associated with it. The Black Arts Movement was a Black Cultural Nationalist current in the 1960s–70s that promoted Black aesthetics and political art as tools for liberation, empowerment, and cultural self-determination. A key poet who embodied this movement’s spirit is Amiri Baraka, whose poetry and leadership—especially through the Black Arts journal and his militant, politically charged writings—defined the era’s emphasis on art as a strategic, confrontational force for Black liberation. In contrast, the Harlem Renaissance occurred earlier (roughly the 1920s–30s) and, while Langston Hughes was a major figure there, it isn’t the Black Arts Movement. The other options point to movements with different goals and eras—Postwar Modernism and its circle, and the Beat Movement with spontaneous prose—neither of which align with the Black Arts Movement’s aims or leadership.