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Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka is a poet, playwright and political activist.

Amiri Baraka appears in the following:

LeRoi Jones's Poetic Manifesto, "The Revolutionary Theater"

Monday, February 18, 2013

WNYC

The writer and activist LeRoi Jones (who would later be known as Amiri Baraka) speaks here on February 17, 1965, four days before the assassination of Malcolm X, an event that catapulted him from a charismatic Greenwich Village maverick into a radicalized black nationalist in Harlem.

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The Legacy of Maya Angelou at the Schomburg Center

Friday, October 29, 2010

Poets Maya Angelou and Amiri Baraka and professor Farah Griffin of Columbia weigh in on Dr. Angelou's legacy of documents.

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