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 ...

In 'Black Music', a collection of essays, liner notes and interviews from 1959 to 1967, Amiri Baraka captures the ferment, energy and excitement of the avant-garde jazz scene. Published while he still ...

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 ...