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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...
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    School. Baraka is a candidate for governor of New Jersey in the 2025 election. A Newark native, Baraka is the son of poet and activist Amiri Baraka (born...
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  • co-writing along with Qasim Basir, based on the 1964 play Dutchman by Amiri Baraka. The film stars André Holland, Kate Mara, Zazie Beetz, Stephen McKinley...
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  • Amina and her spouse Amiri Baraka authored a collection of poems entitled Songs for the Masses. In 1983 and 1987, Amina and Amiri Baraka co-edited Confirmation:...
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  • Dutchman (play) (category Plays by Amiri Baraka)
    Dutchman is a play written by playwright Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones. Dutchman was first presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich...
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  • Hama, Syria Ajamu Baraka (born 1953), human rights activist and 2016 candidate for Vice President of the United States Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), American...
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  • Look up amiri or Amiri in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Amiri may refer to: Amiri (surname) Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), American writer Amiri, Bushehr...
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  • A Black Mass (category Plays by Amiri Baraka)
    Black Mass is a play written by Amiri Baraka and performed at Proctor's Theatre in Newark, New Jersey in 1966. Baraka also recorded a version of the play...
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    Revolutionary Communist League (Marxist-Leninist-Mao Tse-tung Thought) led by Amiri Baraka. This organization, formerly known as the Congress of Afrikan People...
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    Amiri Baraka is widely recognized as the founder of BAM. In 1965, he established the Black Arts Repertory Theatre School (BART/S) in Harlem. Baraka's...
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  • Before the position was abolished, only two poets, Gerald Stern and Amiri Baraka, had been appointed as the state's poet laureate. The legislature's bill...
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  • Lee "Scratch" Perry Black Arts Movement Black Art (poem), written by Amiri Baraka Black art (theatre), an optical effect in stage magic Black Magic (disambiguation)...
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  • AfroSurrealism) is a genre or school of art and literature. In 1974, Amiri Baraka used the term to describe the work of Henry Dumas. D. Scot Miller in...
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  • and Newark, New Jersey. She is the daughter of poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka (formerly known as LeRoi Jones). Jones graduated from Yale University...
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  • "Black Art" is a poem written by African-American poet Amiri Baraka. It was written in 1965 after the assassination of Malcolm X while still known as LeRoi...
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    Beats like the poet Robert "Bob" Kaufman and the writer LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) provide through their work distinctly Black perspectives on the movement...
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  • Drake, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago) tended towards eclecticism. Poet Amiri Baraka, an important figure in the Black Arts Movement (BAM), recorded spoken...
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  • Afro-American music (and culture generally) by Amiri Baraka, who published it as LeRoi Jones in 1963. In Blues People Baraka explores the possibility that the history...
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    Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death. In 1965, he worked alongside Amiri Baraka, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler and Sonia Sanchez at the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School...
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  • for the benefit of The Black Arts Repertory Theater/School founded by Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones. The album was released on LP in 1965 on the...
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  • of the television show X-Files. Dominique di Prima is the daughter of Amiri Baraka and Diane di Prima, both deceased. She grew up in New York and California...
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  • Anthology of African American Women, an anthology edited by Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka, and is the only short story written by the acclaimed novelist...
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  • Edel, Gilbert Sorrentino, Nick Tosches, Jerry Stahl, Richard Price, Amiri Baraka, James Ragan, Michael Silverblatt, Jem Cohen, Kenneth Shiffrin, Nicolas...
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    Their new name, Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, came from a poem by Amiri Baraka. Abbie Hoffman characterized them as "the middle-class nightmare... an...
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  • staged by film director Joshua Logan and musical director Mitch Miller. Amiri Baraka, one of the 117 invitees who came for the filming, was present in the...
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  • directed by Andre Gaines, based on the 1964 play of the same name by Amiri Baraka. Banks has an allergy to lanolin and has to use vegan beauty products...
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    election was seen by some in almost prophetic terms. Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka wrote, "We will nationalize the city's institutions, as if it were liberated...
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  • documentary film about the Baraka family, including American poets Amiri Baraka, Amina Baraka, and their son, Ras Baraka, the current mayor of Newark...
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    Jones before he became Amiri Baraka, who, after reading "Howl", wrote a letter to Ginsberg on a sheet of toilet paper. Baraka's independent publishing...
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  • Black Liberation Movement, which itself was subsequently criticized by Amiri Baraka of the League of Revolutionary Struggle in a pamphlet titled RWH on the...
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