The multi-talented creative breaks down the connection between music and the Black church, and his role in Ryan Coogler’s acclaimed horror flick.

“But I also got a chance to listen to her about how much she missed her good friend Toni Morrison, and how she missed the days when Amiri Baraka would call her to read a poem in the middle of ...

Why did you do that?” And you’re like, “Well…” Amiri Baraka’s words loom large in your work and especially in this exhibition. Thinking about a crisis state or the idea that in your cr ...

Baraka's father is poet and activist Amiri Baraka. Baraka was a central figure of the Black Arts Literary Movement — the cultural auxiliary to the 1960s Black Power movement, according to ...