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Amiri Baraka

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1934-10-07

Deathday: 2014-01-09 (79 years old)

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.

Filmography

all 57

Movies 52

self 45

TV Shows 5

Writer 3

Director 2

Self

Amiri Baraka

Biography

Filmography

all 57

Movies 52

self 45

TV Shows 5

Writer 3

Director 2

Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri (2024)

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023)

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022)

Why Is We Americans? (2022)

The Long Shadow (2018)

King of Stage: The Woodie King Jr. Story (2018)

Blues America (2013)

The Nature of Existence Companion Series (2011)

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010)

Motherland (2010)

Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identity (2010)

The Nature of Existence (2010)

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009)

Obscene (2008)

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

Return to Gorée (2007)

Turn Me On (2007)

Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (2007)

Revolution '67 (2007)

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (2006)

The Pact (2006)

The Ballad of Greenwich Village (2005)

Letter to the President (2005)

Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet (2005)

Cecil Taylor: All The Notes (2005)

Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004)

Hughes' Dream Harlem (2002)

Strange Fruit (2002)

Ralph Ellison: An American Journey (2002)

Bulworth (1998)

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

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

ER (1994)

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989)

The Beat Generation: An American Dream (1987)

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (1987)

In Motion: Amiri Baraka (1983)

Poetry in Motion (1982)

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)

Death of a Prophet (1981)

Castelporziano, Ostia dei poeti (1980)

Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979)

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement (1978)

Medea (1973)

Nationtime (1972)

1 P.M. (1971)

A Fable (1971)

Great Performances (1971)

Black Journal: 23; New-Ark (1970)

The New-Ark (1969)

The Fall (1969)

Black Spring (1967)

Dutchman (1966)

Cellar Vigil (1966)

Breaking the rules

The Dutchman

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Information

Known ForActing

GenderMale

Birthday1934-10-07

Deathday2014-01-09 (79 years old)

Birth NameEverett LeRoi Jones

Birth PlaceNewark, United States

ReligionIslam

ChildrenDominique di Prima, Kellie Jones, Ras Baraka, Lisa Jones

CitizenshipsUnited States

Also Known AsEverett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka, LeRoy Jones-Baraka, Ameer Baraka

AwardsLangston Hughes Medal, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Book Awards, Black Literary Hall of Fame, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Credited with

Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1934-10-07

Deathday
2014-01-09 (79 years old)

Birth Name
Everett LeRoi Jones

Birth Place
Newark, United States

Religion
Islam

Children
Dominique di Prima, Kellie Jones, Ras Baraka, Lisa Jones

Citizenships
United States

Also Known As
Everett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka, LeRoy Jones-Baraka, Ameer Baraka

Awards
Langston Hughes Medal, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Book Awards, Black Literary Hall of Fame, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship