The Black Arts Movement he helped launch in Harlem in ... Baraka is Blues People. Amiri Baraka’s son. Kellie Jones is too. The Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art at Columbia University is ...

Novelist Bernardine Evaristo on the complex man at the heart of the black arts movement in 1960s America and how that movement inspired her as a black British writer.

The obits for Amiri Baraka ... racism. In Baraka’s work, however, these attitudes are often applied to any white person (usually a woman) who shows any interest in a black man.

"He [Amiri Baraka] is in Harlem, he's founding the Black arts movement, and then he makes a conscious decision," Keene said. "Harlem is great, but I'm going back — specifically to Newark.

LeRoi Jones, Author, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Author ... the prolific Baraka is perhaps best known as a founder of the Black Arts movement during the 1960s, and as an all-around cultural agitator.

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 ...

He moved to Harlem and helped launch the Black Arts Movement, the literary ally of the Black Power movement. Within a few years, he had changed his name to Amiri Baraka, remarried and at times ...