The First Congress of Black Writers and Artists was organized by the Pan-African quarterly cultural, political, and literary review Présence Africaine.
Reports of the congress were published in many newspapers around Paris, giving the wider French audience an idea of the issues being discussed.
As proponents of Négritude, Diop and Senghor supported the creation of an international black identity that was separated from imperialism and colonialism.
[10] The goal of this event was to discuss the attainment of Black independence through vocalizations opposing issues including Racism, Capitalism, Colonization, and the practice of discrimination.
[11] Ideas were presented at the conference in four separate sections: "The Origin and Consequences of the Black-White Confrontation," The Germs of the Modern Black Awareness", "The Re-Evaluation of the Past" and "Perspectives for the Future".