In 1975, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes laid down a melodic mandate that applies to our times: “Wake up, everybody / No more ...
Subsequently, Maulana Karenga, founder of the Kwanzaa holiday, renamed him Amiri Baraka. One of the African American writers who galvanized a second black Renaissance — the Black Arts Movement ...
Aaron Robertson’s exacting, poetic The Black Utopians tracks the rise of Black nationalism, skeptical to its core, through a ...
Season, The Billie Holiday Theatre - one of the nation's preeminent arts and culture organizations - will launch the ...
More than 45 supporters of the North Carolina Black Repertory Company played African instruments and sang with Baba Joseph ...
But like most Howard Bison, I’m aware that our list of noteworthy alumni reads like a call sheet for Black American history and aware ... Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Amiri Baraka, Vernon Jordan, ...
Newton, the Black Panthers gained national attention ... Gloria Richardson, Andrew Young, Amiri Baraka, and Stokely Carmichael. By the mid-1960s, however, student leaders chafed at mandatory ...
Keeping Amiri Baraka’s legacy alive through this impactful story and the poetic nature of his writing will no doubt leave audiences with a lot more to reflect on about American society ...
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 ...