
Amiri Baraka
Known for WritingBorn 1934-10-07Died 2014-01-09Newark, New Jersey, USA
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.Read more
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Return to Gorée
2007 · Movie
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Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978 · Movie
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castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025 · Movie
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
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Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005 · Movie
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Poetry in Motion
1982 · Movie
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ER
1994 · Series
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Nationtime
1972 · Movie
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
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Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979 · Movie
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Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006 · Movie
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982 · Movie
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Medea
1973 · Movie
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W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
1996 · Movie
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Bulworth
1998 · Movie
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1 P.M.
1971 · Movie
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Great Performances
1971 · Series
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Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997 · Movie
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Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009 · Movie
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The Dutchman
2026 · Movie
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Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008 · Movie
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Dutchman
1966 · Movie
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Death of a Prophet
1981 · Movie
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A Fable
1971 · Movie
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James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989 · Movie
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
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Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024 · Movie

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New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2008 · Movie
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007 · Movie

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Turn Me On
2007 · Movie

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The Pact
2006 · Movie

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Poets at the Living Theater
2006 · Movie

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Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005 · Movie

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Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987 · Movie
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
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In Motion: Amiri Baraka
1983 · Movie

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Speaking in Tongues
1982 · Movie
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
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Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970 · Movie

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The New-Ark
1969 · Movie
Black Spring
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Black Spring
1967 · Movie
Cellar Vigil
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Cellar Vigil
1966 · Movie