For anyone without the benefit of an African American studies degree or having spent time in Newark, NJ, the name Amiri Baraka (1934–2014) may be unfamiliar. Too bad. When thinking about 20th ...

Chicago had Carl Sandburg. Paterson had William Carlos Williams. And Newark was lucky enough to have two: Amiri Baraka and Philip Roth. Hard to imagine two writers more different. Or, possibly ...

The obits for Amiri Baraka are coming thick and fast—at The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. Many of the obits mention his poetry ...

LeRoi Jones, Author, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Author, Amiri Baraka, Author Lawrence Hill Books $32 (480p) ISBN 978-1-55652-346-5 Known for his poetry, plays and essays, Baraka, formerly Leroi Jones ...

Amiri Baraka (previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka), Amina Baraka, Simon Vinkenoog, Seymour Krim, Cecil Taylor, Michael McClure, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, Ahmed Yacoubi, Erró (Gudmundur ...

This video portrait filmed in the days leading up to Amiri Barakas appeal of his 90day ... the 8th Street Playhouse movie theater documents Baraka at his radio show at home with his wife and ...

In 'Black Music', a collection of essays, liner notes and interviews from 1959 to 1967, Amiri Baraka captures the ferment, energy and excitement of the avant-garde jazz scene. Published while he still ...

Listen to it below. The album takes its name and intention from the column that poet and jazz theorist Amiri Baraka wrote for DownBeat in the 1960s. “I was first exposed to Amiri Baraka at Howar ...

“I am not aware of any city in the U.S. that leverages the power of collaboration as widely and effectively as we do in Newark,” Chief of Staff Amiri Baraka Jr. said. “Cooperation permeates ...

We publish a great range of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by writers such as Whitney Balliett, Amiri Baraka, Hayden Carruth, Wanda Coleman, Billy Collins, Jayne Cortez, Stephen Dunn, Gary Giddins, ...

Novelist Bernardine Evaristo on the complex man at the heart of the black arts movement in 1960s America and how that movement inspired her as a black British writer.