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 ... surprising or shocking. Baraka edited and published the poetry of the Beats (in Yugen and Evergreen) and was an important figure in the Black […] Many of the ...

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 ...

Writer-director Andre Gaines takes Amiri Baraka's 1964 play about the encounter between a reserved Black man and a roguish ... which the Museum of Modern Art recently revived, effectively captured ...

And Newark was lucky enough to have two: Amiri Baraka and Philip ... Suicide Note" (1961) and "Black Magic" (1969), his play "Dutchman" (1964), are renegade art. They belong to the world of ...

In The Dutchman, Andre Gaines retrofits Amiri Baraka's caustic play about a fatal encounter between a reserved Black man and a roguish ... which the Museum of Modern Art recently revived ...