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Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

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
castelporziano ostia dei poeti poster
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025 • Self - poet
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Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024 • Self
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder poster
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009 • Self
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press poster
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008 • Self
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture poster
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2008 • Himself
Return to Gorée poster
Return to Gorée
2007 • Self
Turn Me On poster
Turn Me On
2007 • Self
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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007
Poets at the Living Theater poster
Poets at the Living Theater
2006 • Self
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow poster
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006 • Self
The Pact poster
The Pact
2006 • Self
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes poster
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005 • Himself
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Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005 • Self
Bulworth poster
Bulworth
1998 • Rastaman
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit poster
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997 • Self
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices poster
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
1996 • Self
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket poster
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989 • Self
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper poster
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987 • Himself
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In Motion: Amiri Baraka
1983 • Himself
Speaking in Tongues poster
Speaking in Tongues
1982
Poetry in Motion poster
Poetry in Motion
1982 • Self
I Heard It Through the Grapevine poster
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982 • Self
Death of a Prophet poster
Death of a Prophet
1981
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Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979 • Self
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement poster
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978 • Self
Nationtime poster
Nationtime
1972 • Self
1 P.M. poster
1 P.M.
1971 • Self
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Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970 • Self
The New-Ark poster
The New-Ark
1969 • Self