During the Reconstruction Era artists and economists began to spread the national ideal that in the United States, opportunity and prosperity, upward mobility and success were all possible in the "home of the free." However, through an examination of socioeconomic and racial relations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, one is able to see that the American Dream was a racialized fantasy, encouraging immigration and participation in a system that would go on to exploit and oppress through today. The lived experience of African Americans, as presented through African American art proves as much. This audio-visual project will explore and analyze the messages three revolutionary black male poets, in hopes of presenting a narrative of the American Dream and its place in the African American Community.