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Amiri Baraka

Personal Info

Known For

Writing

Born

October 7, 1934

Died

January 9, 2014 (age 79)

Place of Birth

Newark, New Jersey, USA

Also Known As

Everett Leroy Jones

LeRoi Jones

Imamu Amear Baraka

LeRoy Jones-Baraka

Ameer Baraka

Amiri Baraka

Biography

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

2025Filmcastelporziano ostia dei poetias Self - poet 2024FilmSing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amirias Self 2009FilmFerlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonderas Self 2008FilmObscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Pressas Self 2008FilmNew York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Countercultureas Himself 2007FilmReturn to Goréeas Self 2007FilmTurn Me Onas Self 2007FilmPolis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place 2006FilmPoets at the Living Theateras Self 2006FilmHubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrowas Self 2006FilmThe Pactas Self 2005FilmCecil Taylor: All The Notesas Himself 2005FilmSun Ra: Brother From Another Planetas Self 1998FilmBulworthas Rastaman 1997FilmScenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spiritas Self 1996FilmW.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voicesas Self 1994TVERas Reid 1989FilmJames Baldwin: The Price of the Ticketas Self 1987FilmLangston Hughes: The Dream Keeperas Himself 1983FilmIn Motion: Amiri Barakaas Himself 1982FilmSpeaking in Tongues 1982FilmPoetry in Motionas Self 1982FilmI Heard It Through the Grapevineas Self 1981FilmDeath of a Prophet 1979FilmFried Shoes Cooked Diamondsas Self 1978FilmBlack Theatre: The Making of a Movementas Self 1972FilmNationtimeas Self 1971Film1 P.M.as Self 1971TVGreat Performancesas Self 1970FilmBlack Journal: 23; New-Arkas Self 1969FilmThe New-Arkas Self