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October 3, 1999, Updated January 9, 2014 Moyers & Company
Amiri Baraka, who passed away today at the age of 79, was a poet, a university professor and a political activist. His name is synonymous with the Black Arts Movement that changed American culture. In this 1999 interview, he talks about his inspirations, his poetry and his politics.
Amiri Baraka, who passed away today at the age of 79, was a poet, a university professor and a political activist. His name is synonymous with the Black Arts Movement that changed American culture. In this 1999 interview, he talks about his inspirations, his poetry and his politics.
We know him as Amiri Baraka. But his name was LeRoi Jones when he burst on the public scene in the 1960s. The Beatniks shaped his poetry, and the struggle of American blacks for justice his politics. He studied philosophy and German literature, immersed himself in jazz and the blues, has been a university professor and a political activist. Today his name is synonymous with the Black Arts Movement that changed American culture.
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