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	Amiri Baraka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amiri Baraka, is one of the main leaders and inspirations of the BAM.
		Baraka served in the military for three years before settling in Greenwich Village in New York, at the heart of the Beat scene.
		Baraka was involved in almost every aspect of the beginning of the BAM and also in many other Black political and cultural movements, including participation with the Black Pather Party for Self Defense.
	www.umich.edu /~eng499/people/baraka.html (286 words)

	Amiri Baraka Biography
		Amiri Baraka, born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, on October 7, 1934, Amiri Baraka is today a beloved poet, an elder statesman of the African-American community.
		Baraka was a founder and chairman of the Congress of African People, a national Pan-Africanist organization with chapters in fifteen cities, and he was one of the chief organizers of the National Black Political Convention, which convened in Gary, Indiana, in 1972 to organize a more unified political stance for African-Americans.
		Amiri Baraka's numerous literary prizes and honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, the Langston Hughes Award from The City College of New York, and a lifetime achievement award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
	www.nathanielturner.com /amiribaraka.htm (1347 words)

	Amiri Baraka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones on October 7, 1934, in Newark, New Jersey) is a American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism.
		Baraka has been a self-proclaimed communist since 1974, but given a history of questionable political leanings and activity, many on the Radical Left do not accept the legitimacy of this claim to the principles of Marxism.
		Predating and predicting the growth of Afrocentricity, Baraka successfully traces the roots of the Charleston to slave society and the roots of blues to West Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amiri_Baraka (1180 words)

	Speakers Platform Speakers Bureau: Amiri Baraka, Keynote Speaker On: Arts / Music / Drama, Empowerment, Politics, ...
		Amiri Baraka's standing as a major poet is matched by his importance as a cultural and political leader.
		Baraka, known as LeRoi Jones until 1967, writes with a style that is confrontational, calculated to shock and awaken audiences to the political concerns of fl Americans.
		Baraka's own political stance has changed several times, each time finding expression in his plays, poems, and essays so that his works can be divided into periods; a member of the avant garde during the 1950s, Baraka became a fl nationalist, and later a Marxist with socialist ideals.
	www.speaking.com /speakers/amiribaraka.html (730 words)

	African American Registry: Amiri Baraka, a voice of concern and controversy . . .
		Amiri Baraka, a voice of concern and controversy.
		Amiri Baraka has undergone many changes in his life and professional career as a writer and poet.
		Baraka commented on the election's revolutionary implications: "We will nationalize the city's institutions," he wrote before the vote, "as if it were liberated territory in Zimbabwe or Angola." Unfortunately, Gibson was later thrown out of office on fraud and conspiracy charges.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2746/Amiri_Baraka_a_voice_of_concern_and_controversy___ (748 words)

	Gale Schools - Black History Month - Biographies - Amiri Baraka
		Amiri Baraka is one of the most controversial writers in recent history, one whose influence on African-American literature has been profound.
		Baraka admitted to Reid, "If I had been a little bigger I would never have been a writer." Yet no matter what sports he joined or clubs he became a member of, Baraka was still seen by other students as an outsider.
		Baraka's parents took pride in the idea of their son succeeding at a mainly white school, but Baraka's unique status caused him tremendous feelings of alienation and isolation.
	www.galeschools.com /black_history/bio/baraka_a.htm (3418 words)

	Amiri Baraka News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Amiri Baraka, in his 1984 Autobiography, recalls a fistfight with the legendary composer and bassist Charles Mingus outside the Five Spot, one of Manhattan's hippest jazz clubs in the 1950s and '60s.
		Amiri Baraka delivers one of his fiery poems to a sold out audience at the Black New World in West Oakland in the heart of an area that is going through gentrification.
		A Newark man was convicted yesterday of murdering a daughter of poet Amiri Baraka and her friend in what the prosecutor called a plot to emotionally destroy the man's estranged wife, another of Baraka's...
	www.topix.net /who/amiri-baraka (350 words)

	A Conversation with Amiri Baraka
		Baraka’s sharing was neither a lecture nor prepared speech, but rather was made up of spontaneous comments from the heart.
		Amiri Baraka was one of the first people to introduce to me [Kalamu ya Salaam] the possibility that you could write "Black" and at the same time write anything you wanted - Blackness was not a formula.
		Baraka: If you know what they are talking about--if they go off in some jargon or linguistic code, that’s different, but if they are talking about the world and you know what they’re talking about, they don’t know no more than you do.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/baraka/salaam.htm (9054 words)

	Amiri Baraka (LeRoy Jones) (b. 1934)
		The typical problems in teaching Baraka's poetry have to do with what has been called his "unevenness"--perhaps more accurately attributable to the tension inherent in balancing Baraka's role as poet and his role as activist--and the strident tone of some of his poems--also related to his political activism.
		Baraka's influence is apparent in the poetry of Sonia Sanchez and Ntozake Shange.
		In considering Baraka's conscious use of language for poetic effect, comparisons with William Carlos Williams (for the use of the vernacular and the idiom) and with Ezra Pound (for its communicative focus) are appropriate.
	www.georgetown.edu /bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/baraka.html (779 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Amiri Baraka
		Baraka admitted to Reid, "If I had been a little bigger I would never have been a writer." Yet no matter what sports he joined or clubs he became a member of, Baraka was still seen by other students as an outsider.
		Baraka's parents took pride in the idea of their son succeeding at a mainly white school, but Baraka's unique status caused him tremendous feelings of alienation and isolation.
		Baraka ridiculed the notion of a separate fl society in his essay "Black Is a Country," insisting that "America is as much a fl country as a white one.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/baraka_a.htm (3608 words)

	Baraka_Amiri_ny
		Amiri Baraka was born into a middle class family in Newark, New Jersey in 1943.
		Amiri Baraka attended Rutgers University, but soon left to be enrolled in Howard University to receive his degree.
		Amiri Baraka's new school paved the way for other African Americans to pursue their dream of writing.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/baraka_amiri_ny.htm (774 words)

	Amiri Baraka Hits a New Low (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Baraka to resign his post, but of course, he and his arts council are a day late and a dollar — make that $10,000 — short.
		Baraka's appointment as New Jersey poet laureate is emblematic of how deeply the infection of victimology has seeped into the nation's cultural pores.
		Baraka is seen as an "authentic" fl artistic voice, he gets a pass from the council on matters of decency and taste.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3799 (666 words)

	FURIOUS FLOWER \| Amiri Baraka: Study Guide
		Amiri Baraka, poet, activist, and playwright, is one of the most exciting and prolific authors in America.
		Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, was educated at Rutgers University and Howard University.
		Amiri Baraka has also been a prime and dynamic force in the Black Arts Repertory Theater School in Harlem and Spirit House in Newark.
	www.newsreel.org /guides/furious/baraka.htm (330 words)

	AllRefer.com - Amiri Baraka (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Amiri Baraka[amErE burA´ku] Pronunciation Key, 1934–;, American poet, playwright, and political activist, b.
		However, one of his poems suggested Israel had foreknowledge of the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and led to furious controversy in the state.
		Demands for Baraka's resignation failed, as did attempts to fire him, but in 2003 the state legislature removed him by eliminating the poet laureate post.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Baraka-I.html (361 words)

	New Jersey Fires Amiri Baraka
		The Legislature certainly must have known Baraka's reputation as an uncompromising politico was nearly as wide spread as renown for his poems, essays and theater work.
		Doubtless white critics gave Baraka a wide berth at the time, but the rage was legitimate, and for a period it was useful in getting some amazing writing done, incendiary as it was.
		Baraka's problem is that like fellow beat partisan Allan Ginsberg, he ran out of things to talk about decades ago, and never devised an interesting way or an extended style to make what he's already laid out to remain interesting.
	tedburke2.tripod.com /amiribaraka.html (377 words)

	Kjali Dialogue with Amiri Baraka - Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones) is widely celebrated as the father of the Black Arts Movement and is one of the most prolific and influential African-American writers of the 20th century.
		Baraka’s sharing was neither a lecture nor prepared speech, but rather was made up of spontaneous comments from the heart.
		Amiri Baraka was one of the first people to introduce to me [Kalamu ya Salaam] the possibility that you could write "Black" and at the same time write anything you wanted - Blackness was not a formula.
	www.black-collegian.com /african/baraka-a1299.shtml (3142 words)

	Amiri Baraka Biography and Summary
		The African American author Imamu Amiri Baraka (born 1934 as Everett LeRoi Jones) became influential during the 1960s as a spokesperson for radical fl literature and theater.
		LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka, one of the prime movers of the revolutionary fl theatre and the contemporary fl arts movement in general, came to the forefront of the American literary scene in the 1960s as a playwright, poet, and essayist.
		Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones on October 7, 1934, in Newark, New Jersey) is a American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism.
	www.bookrags.com /Amiri_Baraka (453 words)

	VH1.com : Amiri Baraka : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		Remaining an activist, Baraka dropped his nationalist stance in 1974 and adopted a Marxist/Leninist one and is regarded as one of the most influential African-American writers of the 20th century.
		Baraka has added one more volume to his shelf of music criticism, The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues, which he and Amina Baraka, his wife, published in 1987.
		Baraka has taught at SUNY Buffalo and Columbia University, and he is currently a professor of Africana studies at SUNY, Stony Brook.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/baraka_amiri/bio.jhtml (353 words)

	Amiri Baraka: a long history of hostility to Jews and Jewish concerns
		Amiri Baraka, the former Leroi Jones, has a long history of hostility to Jews and Jewish concerns.
		Baraka was appointed New Jersey’s state poet laureate in July 2002, but was stripped of his title nearly a year later when Gov. James E. McGreevey signed into law legislation that officially eliminated the position.
		Baraka’s poem was widely condemned, and state lawmakers, unable to fire the poet, instead drafted legislation to officially eliminate his position.
	www.adl.org /anti_semitism/baraka_words.asp (869 words)

	amiri baraka, dutchman by amiri baraka, amiri baraka an agony. as now., imamu amiri baraka, Welcome to Famous African ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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		In the mid-1960s, Baraka went on to write fiction, solidifying his Black Nationalism with Tales (1967), a collection of short stories in which violent action figures prominently as a means for social change.
		Baraka's play Dutchman, in which a middle-class fl man and white woman engage in a deep and raw conversation about sex and race on a subway, won the Village Voice Obie Award in 1964.
	www.afropoets.net /amiribaraka.html (417 words)

	BlackOnBlackRhyme.com :: Amiri Baraka
		Baraka is a prolific writer who has worked across a range of genres: poetry, drama, novels, jazz operas, and nonfiction.
		While Baraka became increasingly involved with militant political organizations in the mid-1960s, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965 led to his final break with the predominantly white bohemian world.
		Baraka's poetry, while often retaining something of his earlier fragmentary style, was crucial in establishing a connection between African American vernacular forms and literature.
	www.blackonblackrhyme.com /BOBR_Archives/index_0608(amiribaraka).htm (662 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Amiri Baraka lecture on revolutionary poetry. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A lecture by Amiri Baraka on the politics of poetics.
		Baraka begins by reading, not a lecture, but an excellent short manifesto of sorts about the revolutionary responsibilty of art, and the dangers of absorption and exploitation by consumer-culture.
		Amiri is the most effective when he is talking about things with passion and conviction.
	www.archive.org /audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=naropa&collectionid=naropa_amiri_baraka_lecture_on&from=collectionSpotlight (411 words)

	PW: Amiri Baraka: Fierce Fictions, Radical Truths - 5/1/2000 - Publishers Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Baraka is a seminal American p t, an Obie award-winning playwright (The Dutchman, 1964), a pioneering fl jazz critic and a deft literary essayist.
		Baraka's fiction, probably his least known body of work, manages to be both formally difficult and relatively accessible and synthesizes these seemingly antithetical traditions into vibrant works of the American literary imagination.
		Baraka tells PW he got thrown out of Howard "a couple of times"; "I was more interested in reading and hanging out," than attending classes.
	www.publishersweekly.com /index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA168239&publication=publishersweekly (2118 words)

	Imamu Amiri Baraka Biography
		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 has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe.
		The Essence of Reparations is Baraka’s first published collection of essays in book form radically exploring what is sure to become a twenty-first century watershed movement of Black peoples to the interrelated issues of racism, national oppression, colonialism, neo-colonialism, self-determination and national and human liberation, which he has long been addressing creatively and critically.
		Born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, on October 7, 1934, Amiri Baraka is today a beloved poet, an elder statesman of the African-American community.
	www.famouspoetsandpoems.com /poets/imamu_amiri_baraka/biography (1207 words)

	Somebody Blew Up America By Baraka
		Baraka, now that he stands accused of reciting an anti-Semitic poem, has proved to be a great deal more difficult and time-consuming.
		Baraka could be fired, a State Senate committee took the first step today toward abolishing the position of poet laureate outright, with the idea that New Jersey should be supporting the arts in general, not individual artists.
		Baraka's recent poem could be interpreted as stating that Israelis were forewarned of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
	www.nathanielturner.com /somebodyblewupamerica.htm (1100 words)

	Vignette: Amiri Baraka
		Amiri Baraka, originally known as Everett LeRoi Jones, was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934.
		Baraka’s writings often involved issues of racial and national identity.
		In the mid-70’s Baraka underwent a philosophical change and became a Marxist, supporting the overthrow of the capitalist system, fl or white.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/baraka_amiri.htm (286 words)

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