Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died ...
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He ...
Newark Natives Philip Roth and Amiri Baraka, two of the city’s most acclaimed literary figures, were “near-exact contemporaries,” award-winning poet, author and educator John Keene said on Wednesday, ...
In his transitional poems Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka theorizes the connections between African American identity and jazz improvisation. These poems were written and published in the 1960s during Jones ...
Join Steve Adubato and his co-host, Executive Producer Jacqui Tricarico as they remember Newark Mayor Ken Gibson and poet and activist, Amiri Baraka. One-on-One is available to stream on pbs.org and ...
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His booking agent, Celeste Bateman, told The Associated Press that Baraka, who had been hospitalized since last month, died Thursday at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. Perhaps no writer of the ...
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On the C-SPAN Networks: Amiri Baraka is an Author with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1995 Rally. The year with the most videos was 2008 with two videos. The year ...