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they were called to the scene after a report of an assault in progress. They maintain that Baraka was hitting his wife, and when they moved to intervene, he attacked them as well, whereupon they used the necessary force to subdue him. Amina's account contrasted with that of the police; she held a news conference the day after the arrest accusing the police of lying. A grand jury dismissed the assault charge, but the resisting arrest charge moved forward. In
November 1979 after a seven-day trial, a criminal court jury found Baraka guilty of resisting arrest. A month later he was sentenced to 90 days at
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English department in 1988; over the next two years, he taught a number of courses in African American literature and music. Although Baraka sought a permanent, tenured appointment at the rank of full professor in early 1990 (in part due to the proximity between the university's campus in
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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 X he found himself thinking, "As a Black man married to a white woman, I began to feel estranged from her ... How
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thinks of the black man as potentially raping every white lady in sight. Which is true, in the sense that the black man should want to rob the white man of everything he has. But for most whites the guilt of the robbery is the guilt of rape. That is, they know in their deepest hearts that they should
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references the "fetters of narrow political and social demands that have nothing to do with the production of artistic texts", evincing a political/apolitical dichotomy where the editor considers overly political works of lesser artistic value. Critic Emily Ruth Rutter recognizes the contribution to
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in July 2002. McGreevey learned that there was no legal way, according to the law authorizing and defining the position, to remove Baraka. On
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January 9, 1982, and November 6, 1982. The judge noted that having Baraka serve his 90 days on weekends would allow him to continue his teaching obligations at Stony Brook. Rather than serve his sentence at the prison, Baraka was allowed to serve
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In June 1979 Baraka was arrested and jailed at Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue in
Manhattan. Different accounts emerged around the arrest, yet all sides agreed that Baraka and his wife, Amina, were in their car arguing over the cost of their children's shoes. The police version of events holds that
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Baraka also promoted theatre as a training for the "real revolution" yet to come, with the arts being a way to forecast the future as he saw it. In "The Revolutionary Theatre", Baraka wrote, "We will scream and cry, murder, run through the streets in agony, if it means some soul will be moved." In
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Baraka advocated for the rape of white women by Black men, believing that it was a politically legitimate act. Baraka objectified white women, believing that they served as a location of racial struggle rather than as human beings. He implied that white women would enjoy being raped by Black men,
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In 2003, Baraka's daughter Shani, aged 31, and her lesbian partner, Rayshon Homes, were murdered in the home of Shani's sister, Wanda Wilson Pasha, by Pasha's ex-husband, James Coleman. Prosecutors argued that Coleman shot Shani because she had helped her sister separate from her husband. A New
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delegation and reported his impressions in his essay "Cuba Libre". There he encountered openly rebellious artists who declared him to be a "cowardly bourgeois individualist" more focused on building his reputation than trying to help those who were enduring oppression. This encounter led to a
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poems and articles. Historian Melani McAlister points to an example of this writing: "In the case of Baraka, and in many of the pronouncements of the NOI , there is a profound difference, both qualitative and quantitative, in the ways that white ethnicities were targeted. For example, in one
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in December 1967, was read by the judge in court, including the phrase: "All the stores will open if you say the magic words. The magic words are: "Up against the wall motherfucker this is a stick up!" Shortly afterward an appeals court reversed the sentence based on his defense by attorney
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and was one of the first responses to Malcolm's death to be exposed to the public. The poem is directed particularly at black men, and it scoldingly labels them "faggots" in order to challenge them to act and continue the fallen activist's fight against the white establishment.
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he 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 eventually divorced Hettie and left her with their two bi-racial daughters. In the essay, Baraka went on to say
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As long as black writers were obsessed with being an accepted middle class, Baraka wrote, they would never be able to speak their mind, and that would always lead to failure. Baraka felt that America only made room for white obfuscators, not black ones.
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and his home in Newark), he did not attain the requisite two-thirds majority of the senior faculty in a contentious 9–8 vote that favored his appointment. Baraka would go on to collectively liken the committee to an
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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
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on October 25, 1979, discussing his protests "against what he perceived as racism in the Africana Studies Department, as evidenced by a dearth of tenured professors". Shortly thereafter, Baraka took a
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yet also proposes adding Baraka and others to ensure students do not "unknowingly accept" the notion that Baraka and writers like him were somehow absent from influencing twenty-first century poetry.
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created a new visual representation of art. However, the Black Arts Repertory Theater School remained open for less than a year. In its short time BARTS attracted many well-known artists, including
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Jersey jury found Coleman (also known as Ibn El-Amin Pasha) guilty of murdering Shani Baraka and Rayshon Holmes, and he was sentenced to 168 years in prison for the 2003 shooting.
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and recognize him as one of the most respected and most widely published Black writers of his generation, though some have said his work is an expression of violence,
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for violation of his oath of duty. He later described his experience in the military as "racist, degrading, and intellectually paralyzing". While he was stationed in
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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
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could someone be married to the enemy?" He eventually divorced Hettie and left her with their two bi-racial daughters. In the essay Baraka went on to say
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syndrome figured ... So come for the rent, jewboys ... one day, jewboys, we all, even my wig wearing mother gonna put it on you all at once.
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4252:"'The Sun's Children': Shadow Work in the Black Arts Poetry of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka"
3749:"Poet, Playwright and Political Activist Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) Taught at Stony Brook"
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Schudel, Matt (January 10, 2014). "Amiri Baraka, 79: Architect of Black Arts Movement".
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Miller, James A. (1986). ""I Investigate the Sun": Amiri Baraka in the 1980s".
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Keleta-Mae, Naila (2016). "Amiri Baraka: A Lifetime of Saying the Unsayable".
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4359:"Art is a Weapon in the Struggle of Ideas: Interviewing Amiri Baraka"
4097:"Metro Briefing: New Jersey: New Brunswick: Conviction In 2 Killings"
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Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones: The Quest for a "Populist Modernism".
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convey its message. It was published in the September issue of
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Early, Gerald (1986). "The Case of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka".
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Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photography of Milt Hinton
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of Africana Studies until his death. In 1987, together with
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persons". That same year his second book of jazz criticism,
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100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia
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2523:"Amiri Baraka - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More"
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5226:"Amiri Baraka, Polarizing Poet and Playwright, Dies at 79"
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Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual
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Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual
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Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual
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The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka: The Jazz Aesthetic
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The "Declaration of Conscience" was written and signed by
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Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual
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Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
5098:"Amiri Baraka's lost Newark film, found and coming home"
5026:"Amiri Baraka's 'Blues People' Comes Home to the Apollo"
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Simmons, Ron (December 31, 2020), Carbado, Devon (ed.),
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4906:"Author Amiri Baraka: 'Tales of the Out & Gone'"
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Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women
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3596:"Raymond A. Brown, Civil Rights Lawyer, Dies at 94"
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2458:Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics
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1945:Most Dangerous Man in America (W. E. B. Du Bois)
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2162:Through Many Dangers: The Story of Gospel Music
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5277:Amiri Baraka video interview at underyourskin
4597:"Setting the Record Straight on Amiri Baraka"
4320:The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
4129:, January 9, 2014. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
3626:. New York City: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
3624:No Cause for Indictment; An Autopsy of Newark
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2048:The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
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4752:"Newark: Court Will Not Hear Poet's Lawsuit"
3803:"TV: Documentary Film Examines Amiri Baraka"
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5005:"On Amiri Bakara: Who Was That Masked Man?"
4256:Post-Jungian Criticism: Theory and Practice
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2109:Billy Harper: Blueprints of Jazz, Volume 2
1853:Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
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678:Blues People: Negro Music in White America
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2551:"Open Book/Beyond Margins Award Winners"
2054:The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues
1437:Black Magic: Collected Poetry, 1961-1967
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659:Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note,
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4462:"Baraka's Dilemma: To Be or Not to Be?"
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2142:Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
2103:The Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
2018:Raise Race Rays Raze: Essays Since 1965
1800:Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
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5314:Amiri Baraka collection of playscripts
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3235:"A Play That's Sure to Make You Sweat"
2751:
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2042:Daggers and Javelins: Essays 1974–1979
1310:blacks as morally superior than whites
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3697:, Nothing Is V2.0, November 24, 2008.
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2289:W.A.R. Stories: Walter Anthony Rodney
2199:Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
1926:The Motion of History and Other Plays
1768:For the 60th anniversary of Baraka’s
1737:African American literary studies of
1551:And cracking they sides at the notion
1315:In his 1984 autobiography, he wrote:
1226:included Amiri Baraka on his list of
1165:. In 1996, Baraka contributed to the
981:In 1979, he became a lecturer in the
7463:African-American short story writers
4594:
4035:
3921:Ripatrazone, Nick (April 14, 2015).
3109:. New York: Oxford University Press.
2838:Slotnik, Daniel (January 10, 2014).
2454:
2024:Kawaida Studies: The New Nationalism
1934:, (published by I. Reed Books, 1979)
1666:American Academy of Arts and Letters
1627:
1430:
1340:Those quotes are from the essays in
4958:
4932:Canadian Review of American Studies
4478:10.18574/nyu/9780814790427.003.0026
4391:Writing African American Women: A-J
4172:
4077:from the original on August 1, 2010
4068:
3844:The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
3594:Berger, Joseph (October 11, 2009).
3388:Anthology of Modern American Poetry
3233:Kennedy, Randy (October 31, 2013).
2752:Pearce, Jeremy (February 9, 2003).
2589:Anthology of Modern American Poetry
2573:
2097:The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
1520:In July 2002, ten months after the
1486:Confessions of a Former Anti-Semite
1358:assassination of Martin Luther King
1352:, followed by the assassination of
1348:, followed by the assassination of
1323:The following is from a 1965 essay:
1198:, Baraka read his 2001 poem on the
1054:Confessions of a Former Anti-Semite
420:in 1951 but transferred in 1952 to
16:African-American writer (1934–2014)
13:
5300:Finding aid to Amiri Baraka papers
5057:(1968)", in Annemarie Bean (ed.),
4904:Chideya, Farai (January 9, 2007).
4894:
4701:Grant, Linda (December 18, 2011).
4675:"Amiri Baraka stands by his words"
4446:
4378:
4272:
4207:Romanska, Magda (April 20, 2009),
4010:Hanley, Robert (August 14, 2003).
3876:"Amiri Baraka stands by his words"
3719:The Johns Hopkins University Press
3474:
2828:
2799:
1609:Supreme Court of the United States
1192:Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival
615:with di Prima, the choreographers
494:, with whom he had two daughters,
447:as a gunner, reaching the rank of
14:
7629:
7618:African American–Jewish relations
5365:The New American Poetry 1945–1960
5291:Maryland Institute College of Art
5110:
4673:Hansen, Suzy (October 17, 2002).
4624:. Amiribaraka.com. Archived from
4323:. Freundlich Books. p. 193.
4173:Fox, Margalit (January 9, 2014).
3874:Hansen, Suzy (October 17, 2002).
3582:Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers
1461:Nazi genocidal depictions of Jews
5208:Amiri Baraka Discography Project
5145:
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5017:
4996:
4357:Erskine, Sophie (June 4, 2009).
4221:10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp0166
3831:. December 18, 1981. p. 36.
1453:The Black Man is Making New Gods
1279:
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164:
7568:Writers from Newark, New Jersey
7473:American civil rights activists
7448:20th-century American essayists
5326:Amiri Interviewed in New Jersey
5266:Amiri Baraka (Partial) FBI File
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4650:. Youtube.com. April 28, 2011.
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4209:"Baraka, Imanu Amiri (b. 1934)"
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3893:Hanley, Robert (May 11, 1990).
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3079:, LeRoi Jones, Diane di Prima,
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2886:Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2014).
2879:
2809:Ulaby, Neda (January 9, 2014).
2773:
2227:The Ballad of Greenwich Village
2065:
1979:Tales of the Out & the Gone
1692:the endless succession of hours
1650:National Endowment for the Arts
1425:
1182:In July 2002, Baraka was named
455:. This led to the discovery of
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89:LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka
7553:Stony Brook University faculty
5203:Site dedicated to Amiri Baraka
5003:Oyama, Richard (Summer 2014).
3953:Demara, Bruce (July 7, 2016).
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2084:Four Black Revolutionary Plays
1984:
1914:Four Black Revolutionary Plays
1247:, as an elected member of the
1229:100 Greatest African Americans
803:San Francisco State University
1:
7588:American conspiracy theorists
7563:University at Buffalo faculty
7423:Culture of Newark, New Jersey
5049:Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), "
3801:Corry, John (June 28, 1983).
3669:Spirit House Movers (Jihad).
3477:"An early poem for Malcolm X"
3166:. Harper Perennial. pp. ix–x.
2754:"When poetry seems to matter"
2486:Bonamo, Mark (July 1, 2014).
2433:
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1377:Misogyny and advocacy of rape
1346:assassination of John Kennedy
334:Tales of the Out and the Gone
7538:Poets Laureate of New Jersey
7493:Barringer High School alumni
7380:Poets Laureate of New Jersey
6953:Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
4703:"The hate that will not die"
4546:University of Illinois Press
4036:Zook, Kristal Brent (2006).
1672:Lifetime Achievement Award.
1632:Baraka served as the second
1420:suppressed homosexual desire
1410:in his writing. He employed
1406:Baraka frequently denounced
1253:2014 Newark mayoral election
1172:Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip
1107:and his Electric Church Band
1041:
792:
628:Fair Play for Cuba Committee
21:Leroy Jones (disambiguation)
7:
7578:Black Arts Movement writers
7573:American Book Award winners
7478:African-American communists
7443:20th-century American poets
6617:Mill Hunk Herald Collective
5193:Interview with Andrea Hiott
4870:September 21, 2018, at the
4788:"Anti-Semitism, Not Poetry"
4538:Gerstner, David A. (2011).
4211:, in Ness, Immanuel (ed.),
3554:See back cover of his book
3400:Harris, William J. (1985).
2691:Watts, Jerry Gafio (2001).
2463:University of Alabama Press
2136:Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1634:Poet Laureate of New Jersey
1466:His 1972 essay collection "
1249:Municipal Council of Newark
1184:Poet Laureate of New Jersey
709:After the assassination of
474:The same year, he moved to
364:Poet Laureate of New Jersey
362:. Baraka's brief tenure as
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7634:
7503:Columbia University alumni
7009:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
5085:Bright Lights Film Journal
5065:improvised in background.
4396:Greenwood Publishing Group
3717:(3). Baltimore, Maryland:
3376:Columbia University Press.
3118:Nelson, Cary (ed.) (2002).
2867:: Black History in America
2666:Nelson, Cary, ed. (2002).
2312:(Black Forum/Motown, 1972)
2283:Ferlinghetti: A City Light
2223:(2005) (voice) ... Himself
2092:(edited with Amina Baraka)
2060:The Essence of Reparations
1959:The System of Dante's Hell
1950:
1670:Before Columbus Foundation
1265:Beth Israel Medical Center
1062:assassination of Malcolm X
930:(which means "Prince") to
490:poets. In 1958 he married
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7583:9/11 conspiracy theorists
7548:Rutgers University alumni
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7166:Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
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5255:FBI files on Amiri Baraka
5189:at Modern American Poetry
4470:New York University Press
4394:. Westport, Connecticut:
4250:Meacham, Rebecca (2004).
3580:A phrase co-opted by the
3415:"A Poem for Black Hearts"
3214:. IMDb.com. February 1968
2699:. pp. 253, 331–333.
2697:New York University Press
2527:Academy of American Poets
2426:I Plan to Stay a Believer
2346:Blueprints of Jazz Vol. 2
2006:The Revolutionary Theatre
1792:
1772:, trumpeter and composer
1488:. Baraka insisted that a
1205:Baraka collaborated with
1114:New Brunswick, New Jersey
1056:. Baraka insisted that a
657:His first book of poems,
440:without taking a degree.
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7508:Howard University alumni
6404:Josephine Gattuso Hendin
5185:August 28, 2008, at the
4044:. Nation Books. p.
3622:Porambo, Ronald (1971).
3372:Sollors, Werner (1978).
3138:"Amiri Baraka 1934-2014"
1932:The Sidney Poet Heroical
1864:
1806:The Dead Lecturer: Poems
1787:
1780:, inspired by it at the
1778:The Blues and Its People
1707:, to contemporary poets
1658:City College of New York
1473:
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839:, including the seminal
416:He won a scholarship to
374:Biographical information
330:PEN/Beyond Margins Award
81:Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
7543:American reparationists
7498:Beat Generation writers
6231:Septima Poinsette Clark
6221:Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
5174:German National Library
4970:African American Review
4595:Ivry, Benjamin (2014).
4571:"Bigotry Is Not Poetry"
4544:. Champaign, Illinois:
4073:. mycentraljersey.com.
2963:African American Review
2670:. Champaign, Illinois:
2643:Oxford University Press
2593:Oxford University Press
2461:. Tuscaloosa, Alabama:
2259:(2007) (TV) ... Himself
2030:Poetry for the Advanced
1705:William Carlos Williams
1468:Raise, Race, Rays, Raze
926:and eventually changed
704:East Village, Manhattan
650:, among others) on the
599:. In October 1961, the
445:United States Air Force
443:In 1954, he joined the
407:On Green Dolphin Street
268:United States Air Force
7613:American anti-Zionists
7598:Writers from Manhattan
7488:American music critics
7458:African-American poets
5840:Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
5238:in The Independent by
4317:Baraka, Amiri (1984).
3289:blackpower.web.unc.edu
2865:Citrus County, Florida
2316:New Music - New Poetry
1697:
1694:piled upon each other
1662:Rockefeller Foundation
1582:Anti-Defamation League
1568:
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1414:in his writings (e.g.
1399:
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1200:September 11th attacks
1147:In 1989 Baraka won an
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784:Martin Luther King Jr.
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613:New York Poets Theatre
461:dishonorable discharge
379:Early life (1934–1965)
326:Stony Brook University
7558:The New School alumni
7533:Poets from New Jersey
6675:José Antonio Burciaga
6650:A'Lelia Perry Bundles
6622:Nora Marks Dauenhauer
5940:Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
5804:Ronald Phillip Tanaka
5644:Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
5447:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
4982:10.1353/afa.2016.0050
4944:10.3138/cras.2015.005
4628:on September 29, 2010
4422:(December 17, 2014).
4290:Watts, Jerry (2001).
4144:The Los Angeles Times
3985:. Amherst, New York:
3454:10.1353/ccr.2016.0054
3175:Jones, LeRoi (2002).
3162:Jones, LeRoi (2002).
3087:and published in the
3081:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2975:10.1353/afa.2014.0042
2587:Nelson, Cary (2000).
2351:Talking House Records
2193:: An American Journey
1824:New Music, New Poetry
1688:I have seen many suns
1685:
1646:Guggenheim Foundation
1639:Newark Public Schools
1559:To stay home that day
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1276:on January 18, 2014.
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943:In 1970 he supported
762:Civil Rights Movement
739:Civil Rights Movement
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389:Barringer High School
322:University at Buffalo
274:Years of service
7252:E. Donald Two-Rivers
7125:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
7100:Guillermo Gómez-Peña
6787:Francisco X. AlarcĂłn
6660:Benjamin Alire Sáenz
6528:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
6489:José Emilio González
6424:William Minoru Hohri
6394:J. California Cooper
6235:Cynthia Stokes Brown
6055:Robert Edward Duncan
5963:Ellen Lai-shan Yeung
5685:Bienvenido N. Santos
5609:American Book Awards
5125:United States portal
4863:New Jersey Transit.
4515:Taylor & Francis
4472:, pp. 317–323,
3967:on November 5, 2016.
3790:. February 24, 1981.
3727:10.1353/aq.1999.0042
3319:english.illinois.edu
3295:on September 9, 2018
3142:poetryfoundation.org
2613:on November 23, 2014
2455:Shaw, Lytle (2013).
2429:(AUM Fidelity, 2010)
2368:New York Art Quartet
2360:New York Art Quartet
2269:Corso: The Last Beat
1847:Funk Lore: New Poems
1723:Legacy and influence
1681:Pennsylvania Station
1522:September 11 attacks
1516:September 11 attacks
1511:thoroughly as I can.
1304:Anti-white sentiment
1274:Newark Symphony Hall
1196:Stanhope, New Jersey
1177:Red Hot Organization
1083:thoroughly as I can.
692:New York City Subway
640:Umbra Poets Workshop
605:The Floating Bear #9
484:Black Mountain poets
387:, where he attended
163: 1958;
6853:Janet Campbell Hale
6597:Karen Tei Yamashita
6509:Michelle T. Clinton
6349:Alma Luz Villanueva
6286:Jimmy Santiago Baca
6216:Juan Felipe Herrera
5955:Ruthanne Lum McCunn
5799:Lorna Dee Cervantes
5639:Leslie Marmon Silko
5611:winners (1980–1999)
5293:'s Decker Library,
4793:The Washington Post
4786:(October 8, 2002).
4764:. November 14, 2007
3979:Asante, Molefi Kete
3828:The Daily Telegraph
3823:"Names in the News"
3390:. pp. 998–999.
3144:. Poetry Foundation
2641:. Oxford, England:
2591:. Oxford, England:
2555:PEN American Center
2508:The Washington Post
2411:, 1997), "Evidence"
2172:(1998) ... Rastaman
2000:Home: Social Essays
1776:premiered a suite,
1679:in New York City's
1621:The Washington Post
1269:intensive care unit
1245:Central High School
1149:American Book Award
1019:William M. Kunstler
1005:and earned tenure.
1003:associate professor
719:Black Arts Movement
601:U.S. Postal Service
434:Columbia University
383:Baraka was born in
310:Everett Leroy Jones
53:Everett Leroy Jones
7608:Postmodern theatre
7593:People from Harlem
7314:LuĂs Alberto Urrea
7176:Brenda Marie Osbey
6863:Lawson Fusao Inada
6720:Verlyn Klinkenborg
6626:Richard Dauenhauer
6587:John Edgar Wideman
6536:Margarita Donnelly
6105:Gloria E. AnzaldĂşa
6008:Colleen J. McElroy
6003:John Kuo Wei Tchen
5978:William J. Kennedy
5973:Venkatesh Kulkarni
5920:Imamu Amiri Baraka
5789:Joyce Carol Thomas
5542:Gilbert Sorrentino
5230:The New York Times
5030:The New York Times
4889:The New York Times
4827:The New York Times
4757:The New York Times
4622:"Amiri Baraka-Bio"
4179:The New York Times
4155:Giambusso, David.
4121:Giambusso, David.
4101:The New York Times
4016:The New York Times
3989:. pp. 50–53.
3900:The New York Times
3808:The New York Times
3783:The New York Times
3710:American Quarterly
3601:The New York Times
3239:The New York Times
3192:. SamuelFrench.com
3035:Robert F. Williams
3027:John Henrik Clarke
3006:The New York Times
2926:(70/71): 343–352.
2844:The New York Times
2759:The New York Times
2291:(2009) ... Himself
2285:(2008) ... Himself
2265:(2007) ... Himself
2253:(2007) ... Himself
2241:(2007) ... Himself
2235:(2006) ... Himself
2229:(2005) ... Himself
2215:(2005) ... Himself
2207:(2004) ... Himself
2201:(2004) ... Himself
2195:(2002) ... Himself
2186:(2002) ... Himself
2180:(2001) ... Himself
2158:(1998) ... Himself
2144:(1978) ... Himself
2138:(1978) ... Himself
1717:New Jersey Transit
1641:in December 2002.
1526:World Trade Center
1451:In the 1967 poem "
1224:Molefi Kete Asante
1130:professor emeritus
1109:
974:in the context of
906:Imamu Amear Baraka
747:Harvard University
582:played saxophone.
552:Gilbert Sorrentino
418:Rutgers University
385:Newark, New Jersey
328:. He received the
318:Imamu Amear Baraka
209:Dominique di Prima
65:Newark, New Jersey
7483:American Marxists
7410:
7409:
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7115:Montserrat Fontes
7014:E.J. Miller Laino
6909:Abraham Rodriguez
6893:Virginia L. Kroll
6802:Leroy V. Quintana
6782:Eugene B. Redmond
6758:Christopher Mogil
6725:William B. Branch
6700:Peter Kalifornsky
6634:Thomas Centolella
6552:Alejandro MurguĂa
6499:Lloyd A. Thompson
6414:Shuntaro Tanikawa
6384:Henry Louis Gates
6319:Salvatore La Puma
5830:Barbara Christian
5784:Jerome Rothenberg
5766:Hilton Obenzinger
5730:Toni Cade Bambara
5575:
5574:
5567:Jonathan Williams
5402:Brother Antoninus
5240:Marcus Williamson
5232:, January 9, 2014
5180:Amiri Baraka page
5096:Whitty, Stephen.
5067:Home on the Range
5051:Home on the Range
4885:"Ode to Joi(sey)"
4883:Strauss, Robert.
4784:Cohen, Richard M.
4555:978-0-252-07787-6
4524:978-1-000-82186-4
4487:978-0-8147-9042-7
4468:, New York City:
4439:978-1-317-58860-3
4405:978-0-313-33197-8
4330:978-0-88191-000-1
4303:978-0-8147-9513-2
4265:978-0-7914-5958-4
4230:978-1-4051-9807-3
4138:Chawkins, Steve.
3633:978-1-933633-21-3
3442:Cream City Review
3354:. January 9, 2014
3077:Elaine de Kooning
3029:and the militant
2944:Birmingham, Jed.
2787:. January 9, 2014
2695:. New York City:
2075:(co-editor, with
1904:Home on the Range
1628:Honors and awards
1431:1960s & 1970s
1222:In 2002, scholar
1032:The Autobiography
995:Stony Brook Press
987:Stony Brook Press
968:Black nationalism
955:well-known poem,
945:Kenneth A. Gibson
825:Anthony Imperiale
807:1967 Newark riots
752:Baraka even uses
609:William Burroughs
597:The Floating Bear
476:Greenwich Village
430:religious studies
424:. His classes in
422:Howard University
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7281:James D. Houston
7271:Gioia Timpanelli
7257:Edwidge Danticat
7201:Nora Okja Keller
7191:John A. Williams
7145:William M. Banks
7064:Stephanie Cowell
6973:Gordon Henry Jr.
6883:Rose L. Glickman
6665:Donna J. Haraway
6630:R. Baxter Miller
6612:Meridel Le Sueur
6582:Jessica Hagedorn
6567:Charley Trujillo
6532:Mayumi Tsutakawa
6523:Paula Gunn Allen
6479:J. Raymond Jones
6470:James M. Freeman
6450:Daniela Gioseffi
6440:Adrienne Kennedy
6409:Leslie Scalapino
6271:David Halberstam
6191:Etheridge Knight
6135:Raymond Federman
6130:Natasha Borovsky
6096:Anna Lee Walters
6080:William Oandasan
5860:John A. Williams
5850:James D. Houston
5710:Peter Blue Cloud
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2371:(ESP-Disk, 1965)
2310:It's Nation Time
2276:The Black Candle
2149:Poetry in Motion
1972:Un Poco Low Coup
1859:The Book of Monk
1828:India Navigation
1818:It's Nation Time
1739:Angles of Ascent
1734:Angles of Ascent
1730:Angles of Ascent
1616:Richard M. Cohen
1542:Condoleezza Rice
1484:that was titled
1412:homophobic slurs
1389:Ain't I a Woman?
1175:produced by the
1052:that was titled
972:Marxism-Leninism
852:Sonny's Time Now
837:music journalism
818:Raymond A. Brown
812:Evergreen Review
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591:(1960–65). With
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341:Black liberation
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7069:William H. Gass
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6888:Tino Villanueva
6868:Nicole Blackman
6848:Gregory J. Reed
6833:Giose Rimanelli
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6807:Katherine Peter
6772:Denise Giardina
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6705:Raymond Andrews
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5880:Peter Guralnick
5875:Nash Candelaria
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7216:Thomas Lynch
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6226:Michael Mayo
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5751:Duane Niatum
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5562:John Wieners
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861:Albert Ayler
857:Sunny Murray
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504:Jack Kerouac
496:Kellie Jones
492:Hettie Cohen
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349:
345:White racism
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306:Amiri Baraka
305:
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295:.amiribaraka
214:Shani Baraka
201:Kellie Jones
149:Hettie Cohen
77:(2014-01-09)
32:Amiri Baraka
25:
7433:2014 deaths
7428:1934 births
7402:(2002–2003)
7394:(2000–2002)
7286:Jerry Lipka
7237:Anna Linzer
7181:Don DeLillo
7105:Louis Owens
7038:Kimiko Hahn
7033:Edward Said
6978:Tricia Rose
6963:Peter Quinn
6873:Paul Gilroy
6858:Jill Nelson
6797:Jack Beatty
6767:Cornel West
6695:Peter Bacho
6690:Norma Field
6518:Miles Davis
6484:John Norton
6364:Carolyn Lau
6359:Audre Lorde
6333:Tek Lum Lum
6266:Daisy Bates
6206:James Welch
6150:Toshio Mori
6120:Linda Hogan
6031:Sojin Takei
6018:Peter Irons
5925:JesĂşs ColĂłn
5915:Mark Podwal
5906:Gary Snyder
5901:Cecil Brown
5629:Edward Dorn
5547:Jack Spicer
5537:Gary Snyder
5472:LeRoi Jones
5432:Kirby Doyle
5427:Edward Dorn
5397:Ray Bremser
5213:Appearances
4915:November 4,
4842:. Poets.org
4658:January 10,
4601:The Forward
4420:hooks, bell
4370:December 2,
4021:January 10,
3906:January 10,
3607:October 12,
3475:Rambsy, H.
3244:January 11,
3218:January 11,
3196:January 11,
3148:November 4,
2871:January 11,
2820:November 4,
2791:January 10,
2765:January 10,
2734:January 10,
2617:November 8,
2532:January 10,
2409:Justin Time
2304:Discography
2123:The New Ark
2116:Filmography
2012:Black Music
1985:Non-fiction
1886:The Baptism
1812:Black Magic
1614:Journalist
1565:stay away?
1294:antisemitic
1015:White House
952:anti-Jewish
841:Apple Cores
833:Black Music
654:(1962–65).
556:Carol Berge
536:Gary Snyder
465:Puerto Rico
397:Miles Davis
314:LeRoi Jones
212:Maria Jones
7417:Categories
7299:Trey Ellis
7242:Brian Ward
7186:Jim Barnes
6999:Arthur Sze
6557:bell hooks
6494:Sergei Kan
6379:Frank Chin
6140:Susan Howe
6050:May Sarton
6035:Muin Ozaki
6023:Keiho Soga
5945:Miné Okubo
5870:Judy Grahn
5865:Joy Kogawa
5761:Frank Chin
5756:E. L. Mayo
5725:Susan Howe
5690:Helen Adam
5377:Helen Adam
4686:August 12,
4107:August 20,
4081:August 20,
3212:"Dutchman"
3190:"Dutchman"
2924:Salmagundi
2705:B004HFR7VY
2434:References
2296:Motherland
2257:Turn Me On
2111:(Audio CD)
2077:Larry Neal
1920:Slave Ship
1890:The Toilet
1752:separatism
1668:, and the
1534:Trent Lott
1402:Homophobia
1384:bell hooks
1298:misogynist
1290:homophobic
1216:Phrenology
1119:Ivy League
991:Blackworld
957:Black Arts
865:Don Cherry
829:Trotskyite
696:Obie Award
617:Fred Herko
500:Lisa Jones
469:Beat poets
426:philosophy
402:Milestones
360:homophobia
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