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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, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism.
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.
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 in the U.S. Air Force, and returned to New York City to attend Columbia University and the New School for Social Research.
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.
Apr 2, 2014 · Amiri Baraka is an African American poet, activist and scholar. He was an influential Black nationalist and later became a Marxist.
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.
Amiri Baraka is a well known African-American writer of fiction, drama, poetry and music. With books such as Tales of the Out and the Gone, he has received the PEN Open Book Award and is also respected as one of the most widely published African American authors of his generation.
