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Jan 17, 2014 · Amiri Baraka in New York City on June 30, 1964. AP Editor’s note: My Favorite Anti-Semite : An occasional series of tributes to writers, artists, philosophers, and others who hate us, and why we ...
Jan 13, 2022 · With “Why Is We Americans?,” a documentary about the impact the poet and radical Amiri Baraka and his descendants have had on the city of Newark, the directors Udi Aloni and Ayana Stafford ...
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- Udi Aloni, Ayana Stafford-Morris
Jan 14, 2014 · I got why they seemed unexceptionable: not for a moment did I think that Baraka was advocating such actions, not even when, toward the end, he speaks of “the murders we intend”; I was certain ...
Jan 10, 2014 · AMY GOODMAN: Amiri Baraka, reading his poem “Wailers” with David Murray on saxophone, ... Today, we are remembering Amiri Baraka, because he died yesterday at 79 years old. And our guests are ...
Feb 15, 2024 · Read about more impactful artists here. (NewsNation) — Though he was sometimes considered controversial, poet Amiri Baraka made his mark on history through his provocative and thought-provoking pieces of writing. Baraka, whose real name was Everett LeRoi Jones, was born in 1934 in Newark New Jersey. After attending Rutgers and Howard ...
Feb 4, 2022 · There is a temptation when discussing culturally significant and exalted figures like poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka to speak with an air of unfettered worship — to move past ...
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Oct 18, 2021 · Amiri Baraka (October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), born Everett Leroy “LeRoi” Jones in Newark, was one of Greenwich Village’s most outspoken poets of the Black Arts Movement during the 1960s and ’70s. His political advocacy was both illuminating and confrontational, as he attempted to use his writing to document his experience of ...
