Starting in Manhattan's lower east side, approximately from 1960 and ending in 1970, the Black Arts Movement ran with the Black Power Movement. The artists of this movement worked to become politically involved while exploring the African American experience. Started by Amiri Baraka, formerly LeRoi Jones, the movement was influenced by poets such as Nikki Giovanni, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Quincy Troupe. The movement was not widely accepted. It has been called homophobic, racially exclusive, and even misogynist.