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Feb 15, 2024 · Baraka, whose real name was Everett LeRoi Jones, was born in 1934 in Newark New Jersey. After attending Rutgers and Howard University Baraka joined the Air Force, though was dishonorably discharged because he was wrongly accused of having communist views (which he would later adopt.)
Jan 10, 2014 · The influential and controversial poet, playwright and essayist Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, was one of the key black literary voices of the 1960s.
Aug 25, 2024 · Amiri Baraka 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. Among his notable works are Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, Dutchman, and Tales of the Out & Gone.
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Apr 2, 2014 · After three years in the U.S. Air Force, Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) joined the Beat movement in Greenwich Village. After the assassination of Malcolm X, he took the name Amiri...
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 others, died on...
May 6, 2020 · The thrust of Third-World liberation and the historical specificity of slavery in the US came together through Baraka’s politics of national consciousness, which sought to refigure black as a country (Jones and Baraka 2009).
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Poet, playwright, and social advocate Amiri Baraka, considered one of the founders of the Black Arts movement, was known for his outspoken stance against police brutality and racial discrimination, his divisive politics, and his leadership in the Pan-Africanist movement.
