Baraka, Amiri (1934–)

Writer, intellectual, and activist Amiri Baraka, alternately associated with the Beat movement, black nationalism, and socialism, was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. The son of a postal worker, Baraka attended Rutgers University and Howard University before ...

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