Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has a long history of surrounding himself with people accused of abusing women, according to a Fox ...

Malcolm X's bronze bust in Nebraska's Capitol highlights his impact on Black art and resistance. The artist hopes to inspire ...

Baraka grew up in Newark, the son of the poet LeRoi Jones, who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka—a controversial figure who moved from black cultural nationalism to Marxist-Leninism. In 2003, ...

Writer-director Andre Gaines takes Amiri Baraka's 1964 play about the encounter ... last works Baraka published under his birth name LeRoi Jones. Anthony Harvey’s 1967 film adaptation, which ...

This essay looks at Amiri Baraka previously known as LeRoi Jones. He was seen as a genuine heir to James Baldwin. A decade younger than Baldwin, Jones/Baraka arrived in Greenwich Village just as ...

In the wake of Malcolm X’s assassination, LeRoi changed his name to Amiri Baraka, left Hettie and their daughters and moved uptown to Harlem. Jones was bereft but eventually reconciled herself ...

the playwright and poet LeRoi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka) and the poets Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange and Sonia Sanchez, among others. Like many women in the movement, Ms. Giovanni was ...

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 ...

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.

The speaker was Ras Baraka, and he was already known around ... He was known then as LeRoi Jones, and he seemed to enjoy showing the city’s radical-chic hipsters that they weren’t quite ...

Growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in Laurelton, Queens (her mother chaired local Hadassah chapters), Hettie Cohen dreamed of other places. After college in Virginia she plunged into the ...