Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died ...

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Newark Natives Philip Roth and Amiri Baraka, two of the city’s most acclaimed literary figures, were “near-exact contemporaries,” award-winning poet, author and educator John Keene said on Wednesday, ...

Newark Symphony Hall in New Jersey turned into a space of mournful celebration on Saturday for Amiri Baraka, the poet, activist and playwright. In many ways the event represented at once a moratorium ...

I'll give Andre Gaines' new, weird adaptation of "The Dutchman" this much: the first big movie of any given year is usually a horror film, but it's rarely a supernatural riff on a classic, ...

His booking agent, Celeste Bateman, told The Associated Press that Baraka, who had been hospitalized since last month, died Thursday at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. Perhaps no writer of the ...

I’ll give Andre Gaines’ new, weird adaptation of “The Dutchman” this much: the first big movie of any given year is usually a horror film, but it’s rarely a supernatural riff on a classic, ...