Amiri Baraka

Personal Info

Birthday

October 7, 1934

Day of Death

2014-01-09

(79 years old)

Place of Birth

Newark, New Jersey, USA

Also Known As

Everett Leroy Jones

LeRoi Jones

Imamu Amear Baraka

LeRoy Jones-Baraka

Ameer Baraka

Amiri Baraka

Biography

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

Bulworth

Filmography

2024
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
as Self
2009
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
as Self
2008
Obscene
as Self
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
as Himself
2007
Return to Gorée
as Self
Turn Me On
as Self
2006
Poets at the Living Theater
as Self
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
as Self
The Pact
as Himself
2005
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
as Self
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
as Himself
1998
Bulworth
as Rastaman
1997
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self
1989
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self
1987
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
as Himself
1983
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
as Himself
1982
Poetry in Motion
as Self
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
as Self
1979
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
as Self
1978
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
as Self
1972
Nationtime
as Self
1971
1 P.M.
as Self
1970
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
as Self
1969
The New-Ark
as Self