Amiri Baraka
Writing
Born 1934-10-07 · Newark, 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.
Filmography
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Oct 20, 2025
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Apr 1, 2009
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
Sep 26, 2008
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Jan 1, 2008
Return to Gorée
Oct 27, 2007
Turn Me On
Jul 31, 2007
Poets at the Living Theater
Nov 1, 2006
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Jun 22, 2006
The Pact
Jan 1, 2006
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Jan 1, 2005
Bulworth
May 15, 1998
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Jul 3, 1997
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
Sep 11, 1996
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Aug 14, 1989
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Feb 23, 1987
Speaking in Tongues
Dec 11, 1982
Poetry in Motion
Sep 17, 1982
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Mar 3, 1982
Death of a Prophet
Jan 1, 1981
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Dec 31, 1978
Nationtime
Nov 1, 1972
1 P.M.
Jun 8, 1971
The New-Ark
Feb 1, 1969