Amiri Baraka was African American ... Baraka, earlier known as LeRoi Jones, was in many ways a cultural outsider — a fierce revolutionary who skewered an establishment he wanted no part of.

In 'Black Music', a collection of essays, liner notes and interviews from 1959 to 1967, Amiri Baraka captures the ferment, energy and excitement of the avant-garde jazz scene. Published while he still ...

In The Dutchman, Andre Gaines retrofits Amiri Baraka's caustic play ... that Dutchman was one of the last works Baraka ...