Not a Rhyme Time begins in the 1960s, a time of integration and creative "crossover" when black artists make inroads in Hollywood, on Broadway and in popular music, most notably via the Motown sound. As Motown dominates the radio airwaves, a cultural revolution begins, with artists challenging the aesthetics, power, and ultimately the very existence of a so-called "mainstream". Painter Romare Bearden embraces the energy of collage as a means to capture the pulse of African-American communities, and poet Gwendolyn Brooks begins exploring new forms and ideas in her work as the Black Arts Movement makes itself known. By the 1980s, writer Alice Walker wins a Pulitzer Prize, is featured on the cover of Time magazine, and finds herself at the center of a maelstrom of controversy concerning the images of black women and family life she presents in her novel The Color Purple.