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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 Awardformerly known as the Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
Movie | Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper | Himself | 2021 |
Movie | Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder | Himself | 2009-04-01 |
Movie | New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture | Himself | 2008-01-01 |
Movie | Obscene | Self | 2008-09-26 |
Movie | Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place | 2007-04-01 | |
Movie | Turn Me On | Self | 2007-07-31 |
Movie | Return to Goree | Himself | 2007-10-27 |
Movie | The Pact | Himself | 2006-01-01 |
Movie | Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow | Self | 2006-06-22 |
Movie | Bulworth | Rastaman | 1998-05-15 |
Movie | Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit | Himself (as LeRoy Jones-Baraka) | 1997-07-03 |
Movie | James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket | Self | 1989-08-14 |
Movie | In Motion: Amiri Baraka | Himself | 1983-01-02 |
Movie | I Heard It Through the Grapevine | Self | 1982-03-03 |
Movie | Death of a Prophet | 1981-01-01 | |
Movie | Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds | Himself | 1979-10-01 |
Movie | 1 P.M. (One Parallel Movie) | Self | 1971-06-08 |