
Amiri Baraka
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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.
Known for
Credits

Bulworth (1998)
as Rastaman

Nationtime: Gary (1972)
as Self

Death of a Prophet (1981)
Actor

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (2006)
as Self

The Pact (2006)
as Self

Return to Gorée (2007)
as Self

Speaking in Tongues (1982)
Actor

Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press (2008)
as Self
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (2007)
Actor

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement (1978)
as Self

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009)
as Self

The New-Ark (1969)
as Self

castelporziano ostia dei poeti (2025)
as Self - poet

1 P.M. (1971)
as Self

Poetry in Motion (1982)
as Self

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (1987)
as Himself

W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices (1996)
as Self
In Motion: Amiri Baraka (1983)
as Himself

Turn Me On (2007)
as Self

Cecil Taylor: All The Notes (2005)
as Himself
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979)
as Self

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989)
as Self
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri (2024)
as Self

New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture (2008)
as Himself

Poets at the Living Theater (2006)
as Self
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet (2005)
as Self

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
as Self
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark (1970)
as Self

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)
as Self





