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Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, [1] was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony ...
Amiri Baraka (born October 7, 1934, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.—died January 9, 2014, Newark) was an American poet and playwright who published provocative works that assiduously presented the experiences and suppressed anger of Black Americans in a white-dominated society.
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Amiri Baraka. 1934–2014. http://www.amiribaraka.com. Carl Van Vechten, © Van Vechten Trust. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Poet, writer, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University and Howard University, spent three years ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Amiri Baraka is an African American poet, activist and scholar. He was an influential Black nationalist and later became a Marxist. Updated: Jul 7, 2020. (1934-2014) Who Was Amiri Baraka?...
Poet, playwright, and social advocate Amiri Baraka, considered one of the founders of the Black Arts movement, was known for his outspoken stance against police brutality and racial discrimination, his divisive politics, and his leadership in the Pan-Africanist movement.
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Home. The dramatist, novelist and poet, Amiri Baraka is one of the most respected and widely published African-American writers. With the beginning of Black Civil Rights Movements during the sixties, Baraka explored the anger of African-Americans and used his writings as a weapon against racism.
Jan 9, 2014 · Jan. 9, 2014. Amiri Baraka, a poet and playwright of pulsating rage, whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in...
