
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
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Nationtime: Gary (1972)
as Self

Bulworth (1998)
as Rastaman

The Pact (2006)
as Self

W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices (1996)
as Self

Cecil Taylor: All The Notes (2005)
as Himself

Return to Gorée (2007)
as Self

castelporziano ostia dei poeti (2025)
as Self - poet

The New-Ark (1969)
as Self

Death of a Prophet (1981)
Actor
In Motion: Amiri Baraka (1983)
as Himself

Speaking in Tongues (1982)
Actor

Poets at the Living Theater (2006)
as Self

Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press (2008)
as Self

1 P.M. (1971)
as Self
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark (1970)
as Self

Poetry in Motion (1982)
as Self
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet (2005)
as Self

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)
as Self

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (2006)
as Self
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979)
as Self
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri (2024)
as Self

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009)
as Self

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989)
as Self

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (1987)
as Himself
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (2007)
Actor

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

Turn Me On (2007)
as Self

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

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
as Self





