Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this clip from a 1971 episode of SOUL! — filmed entirely without men in the studio — four poets and performers take the stage. Jackie Earley performs "One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty Eight Winters," Saundra Sharp performs "Black Persuasion," Nikki Giovanni performs "Revolutionary Dreams," and Anna Horsford and Novella Nelson close with "Black Gold," a powerful meditation on Black womanhood by an unknown author.

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