People

Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka
  • Name: Amiri Baraka
  • Birthday: 1934-10-07
  • Also known as: Everett Leroy Jones,LeRoi Jones,Imamu Amear Baraka,LeRoy Jones-Baraka,Ameer Baraka
  • Place of birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
  • Popularity: 0.946
Biography: Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.

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Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri   as  Self 2024-02-16
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder   as  Himself 2009-04-01
Obscene   as  Self 2008-09-26
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture   as  Himself 2008-01-01
Return to Gorée   as  Self 2007-10-27
Turn Me On   as  Self 2007-07-31
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place 2007-04-01
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow   as  Self 2006-06-22
The Pact   as  Himself 2006-01-01
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes   as  Himself 2005-01-01
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet   as  Self 2005-01-01
Bulworth   as  Rastaman 1998-05-15
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit   as  Himself (as LeRoy Jones-Baraka) 1997-07-03
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket   as  Self 1989-08-14
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper   as  Himself 1987-02-23
In Motion: Amiri Baraka   as  Himself 1983-01-02
Poetry in Motion   as  self 1982-09-17
I Heard It Through the Grapevine   as  Self 1982-03-03
Death of a Prophet 1981-01-01
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds   as  Self 1979-10-01
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement   as  Self 1978-12-31
Nationtime   as  Self 1972-11-01
1 P.M.   as  Self 1971-06-08
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark   as  Self 1970-07-01
The New-Ark   as  Self 1969-02-01