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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 ...
A comprehensive biography of Amiri Baraka, a poet, writer, teacher, and political activist who was born in 1934 and died in 2014. Learn about his life, works, and controversies as a member of the avant-garde, the Black Nationalist, the third-world liberation movements, and the anti-Semitic activist.
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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Apr 2, 2014 · Amiri Baraka was an African American poet, activist and scholar who was a Black nationalist and later a Marxist. He wrote poetry, plays and books on racial politics, jazz, civil rights and more. He founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School and the Spirit House Players in Newark, New Jersey. He died in 2014 at the age of 79.
Learn about the life and work of Amiri Baraka, a prominent figure in the Black Arts movement and a leader of the Pan-Africanist movement. Explore his poems, plays, essays, and anthologies on topics such as jazz, blues, Malcolm X, and police brutality.
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...
Learn about the life and works of Amiri Baraka, a dramatist, novelist and poet who explored the anger of African-Americans and advocated scientific socialism. Find out his famous poems, plays and commentaries on society, music and literature.
