When the Black Arts Movement continued to split in the early ‘70s, Askia and Larry Neal, an African-American scholar, poet and professor at Yale University, worked together as young poets to make a cultural difference in society with art. Neal has written essays, particularly “The Negro in the Theatre” (1964), “Cultural Front” (1965), and “The Black Arts Movement” (1968), that are as iconic as Toure himself in defining and shaping the Black Power movement. It is no wonder that he was awarded the Gwendolyn Brooks Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.