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Amiri Baraka
Born · October 7, 1934
Died · January 9, 2014 (79 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Bio
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
Self
0.0
2024
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Self
5.0
2009
Obscene
Self
5.0
2008
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Himself
0.0
2008
Return to Gorée
Self
9.0
2007
Turn Me On
Self
0.0
2007
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
0.0
2007
Poets at the Living Theater
Self
0.0
2006
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Self
6.4
2006
The Pact
Himself
0.0
2006
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Himself
0.0
2005
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
Self
8.0
2005
Bulworth
Rastaman
6.3
1998
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Self
5.2
1997
ER
Reid · (1 episode)
7.8
1994
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Self
1.5
1989
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Himself
0.0
1987
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
Himself
0.0
1983
Poetry in Motion
Self
7.0
1982
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Self
0.0
1982
Death of a Prophet
4.4
1981
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Self
6.5
1979
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Self
0.0
1978
Nationtime
Self
0.0
1972
1 P.M.
Self
5.8
1971
Great Performances
Self · (1 episode)
5.4
1971
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
Self
0.0
1970
The New-Ark
Self
0.0
1969