This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Watch this online-only extended interview on the life and legacy of Amiri Baraka, the poet, playwright and political organizer who died ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The documentary, “Why is We Americans,” chronicles the lives and works of the late poet/activist and his family Lauryn Hill ...

Baraka was one of the key black literary voices of the 1960s. The political and social views that inspired his writing changed over the years,... Remembering Activist Poet Amiri Baraka The influential ...

January 2014: Amiri Baraka, the poet and playwright who gave Black arts a capital B, died today. He was 79. Today, we look back at his life and legacy with a 2004 FADER feature on Baraka, written by ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou is mourning her friend Amiri Baraka, remembering him as a vital poet whose private persona differed greatly from his fiery public image. “He was very kind. He was very ...

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Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka died Thursday at age 79, his booking agent said. Celeste Bateman told the Associated Press that Baraka, who had been hospitalized since last month, died at Newark Beth ...

For the late poet Amiri Baraka, poetry was about the sound of the words — that the poems should come alive when they were read aloud. "I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can — from the ...

FILE - This March 12, 1972 file photo shows poet and social activist Amiri Baraka speaking during the Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind. Maya Angelou is mourning her friend Amiri Baraka, ...