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Rhonda Baraka (born March 9, 1962) is an American film and television director and screenwriter. She wrote more than 30 films.
Writer: Fallen Angels Murder Club: Friends to Die For. Rhonda F. Baraka is a Canadian Screen Awards-winning writer and an NAACP-nominated director with more than 20 produced television movies to her credit.
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Rhonda F. Baraka is a Canadian Screen Awards-winning writer and an NAACP-nominated director with more than 20 produced television movies to her credit.
Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story is a 2016 American biographical musical drama film directed by Christine Swanson and written by Swanson and Rhonda Baraka. The film stars Teyonah Parris as R&B and Jazz singer Miki Howard.
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Early life
Baraka was born in Newark, New Jersey, where he attended Barringer High School. His father Coyt Leroy Jones worked as a postal supervisor and lift operator. His mother Anna Lois (née Russ) was a social worker. Jazz was something Baraka became interested in as a kid. He wanted to be just like Miles Davis. "I wanted to look like that too — that green shirt and rolled up sleeves on Milestones...always wanted to look like that. And be able to play "On Green Dolphin Street" or "Autumn Leaves" ......
1966–1980
In 1966, Baraka married his second wife, Sylvia Robinson, who later adopted the name Amina Baraka. The two would open a facility in Newark known as Spirit House, a combination playhouse and artists' residence. In 1967, he lectured at San Francisco State University. The year after, he was arrested in Newark for having allegedly carried an illegal weapon and resisting arrest during the 1967 Newark riots. He was subsequently sentenced to three years in prison. His poem "Black People", published...
1980–2014
In 1980 Baraka published an essay in the Village Voice that was titled Confessions of a Former Anti-Semite. Baraka insisted that a Village Voice editor titled it and not himself. In the essay, Baraka went over his life history, including his marriage to Hettie Cohen, who was Jewish. He stated that after the assassination of Malcolm Xhe found himself thinking, "As a Black man married to a white woman, I began to feel estranged from her ... How could someone be married to the enemy?" He eventua...
Baraka's work has been criticized for being racist, homophobic, antisemitic and misogynistamong others.
Baraka served as the second Poet Laureate of New Jersey from July 2002 until the position was abolished on July 2, 2003. In response to the attempts to remove Baraka as the state's Poet Laureate, a nine-member advisory board named him the poet laureate of the Newark Public Schoolsin December 2002. Baraka received honors from a number of prestigious...
Despite numerous controversies and polarizing content of his work, Baraka's literary influence is undeniable. His co-founding of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s promoted a uniquely black nationalist perspective and influenced an entire literary generation. Critic Naila Keleta-Mae argues that Baraka's legacy is one of "saying the unsayable", a ...
Poetry
1. 1961: Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note 2. 1964: The Dead Lecturer: Poems 3. 1969: Black Magic 4. 1970: It's Nation Time 5. 1980: New Music, New Poetry (India Navigation) 6. 1995: Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones 7. 1995: Wise, Why's Y's 8. 1996: Funk Lore: New Poems 9. 2003: Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems 10. 2005: The Book of Monk
Drama
1. 1964: Dutchman 2. 1964: The Slave 3. 1967: The Baptism and The Toilet 4. 1966: A Black Mass 5. 1968: Home on the Range and Police 6. 1969: Four Black Revolutionary Plays 7. 1970: Slave Ship 8. 1978: The Motion of History and Other Plays 9. 1979: The Sidney Poet Heroical, (published by I. Reed Books, 1979) 10. 1989: Song 11. 2013: Most Dangerous Man in America (W. E. B. Du Bois)
Fiction
1. 1965: The System of Dante's Hell 2. 1967: Tales 3. 2004: Un Poco Low Coup, (graphic novel published by Ishmael Reed Publishing) 4. 2006: Tales of the Out & the Gone
Rhonda Baraka is an American film and television director and screenwriter. She wrote more than 30 films. Her screenwriting debut was with the 2009 drama film Pastor Brown, for which she received her first Black Reel Award for Outstanding Screenplay, TV Movie or Limited Series nomination.
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