In fact, the election of Barak Obama has only helped to create the illusion that racism no longer exists in America... Amiri Baraka has a unique and remarkable understanding of African American ...

Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who ...

A cacophony of bagpipes, African drums and jazz riffs creatively blended -- much like the elements of an Amiri Baraka poem -- at the Saturday funeral for the activist-writer and a founder of the… By ...

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The trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn will premiere “The Blues and Its People,” a suite inspired by Baraka’s influential text, to mark its 60th anniversary. By Alan Scherstuhl When he first read ...

Tenor saxophonist Howard Wiley, Berkeley High Jazz Band alum, will perform with his trio and with acclaimed poet Amiri Baraka Monday night at Yoshi’s in Oakland. “We’ll be celebrating the music and ...

News & Notes pays tribute to pioneering jazz drummer Max Roach, one of the fathers of the bebop jazz style. Roach's biographer, Amiri Baraka, discusses the drummer's career as a musician and an ...

Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has… By ...