The obits for Amiri Baraka are coming thick and fast—at The ... Baraka blames his “gutless” wife for his death and imagines burning not only her flesh but the flesh of all white women ...

“There was the death of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King ... Baraka is Blues People. Amiri Baraka’s son. Kellie Jones is too. The Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art at Columbia University ...

And Newark was lucky enough to have two: Amiri Baraka and Philip Roth ... established by Roth himself before his death. Keene follows in the footsteps of such guest speakers as Salman Rushdie ...

LeRoi Jones, Author, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Author, Amiri Baraka, Author Lawrence Hill Books $32 (480p) ISBN 978-1-55652-346-5 Known for his poetry, plays and essays, Baraka, formerly Leroi Jones ...