Amiri Baraka
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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Great Performances
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ER
Reid
Bulworth
Rastaman
Death of a Prophet
Poetry in Motion
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1 P.M.
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James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
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Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
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Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
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Nationtime
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Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
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Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
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The Pact
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Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
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Obscene
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Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
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Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
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Return to Gorée
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine
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Turn Me On
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Poets at the Living Theater
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Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
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In Motion: Amiri Baraka
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Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
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Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
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New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
The New-Ark
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