Amiri Baraka By Mingjie Li. Early Life Born in NewarkNewark Original name is Everett LeRoi Jones Ordinary family School transfer.

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Amiri Baraka By Mingjie Li

Early Life Born in NewarkNewark Original name is Everett LeRoi Jones Ordinary family School transfer

Other Roles in early time Soldier In 1954, he joined the US Air Force as a gunner. being a communist due to an anonymous letter,discovery of Soviet writing dishonorable discharge racist, degrading, and intellectually paralyzing Puerto Rico Base library Editor The Floating Bear,Prima New York Poets Theatre

Early Works Blues People: Negro Music in White America Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note DutchmanBlues People: Negro Music in White America Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog. Or the broad edged silly music the wind Makes when I run for a bus... Things have come to that. And now, each night I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when they will not come to be counted, I count the holes they leave. Nobody sings anymore. And then last night I tiptoed up To my daughter's room and heard her Talking to someone, and when I opened The door, there was no one there... Only she on her knees, peeking into Her own clasped hands Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

Turning point The assassination of Malcolm X changed his name to Amiri Baraka became a black nationalist moved to Harlem founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School

Father of the Black Arts Movement Black Art Poems are bullshit unless they are teeth or trees or lemons piled on a step. abstract sounds establish a black world

Later Life In 1966, Baraka married his second wife, Sylvia Robinson. Somebody Blew up America In his lifetime, Baraka left us a bunch of worthless treasure. He published more than 50 books including fiction, music criticism, essays, short stories, poetries and plays. He taught at many universities, including the New School for Social Research, San Francisco State University and Yale University. Before retirement, he served as professor emeritus of African Studies at the Stony Brook University for 20 years. He received the PEN Open Book Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the GonePEN Open Book Award Baraka died on January 9, 2014 in his hometown, Newark at the age of 79.

Work Cited 1.Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 04 Dec "12 Quotes From The Late Amiri Baraka." BuzzFeed. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Dec Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 04 Dec