Amiri Baraka
October 7, 1934 (90 years old) in Newark, New Jersey, USA
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
Credits
- 2024 · Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri as Self
- 2009 · Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder as Himself
- 2008 · Obscene as Self
- 2008 · New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture as Himself
- 2007 · Return to Gorée as Self
- 2007 · Turn Me On as Self
- 2007 · Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place as
- 2006 · Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow as Self
- 2006 · The Pact as Himself
- 2005 · Cecil Taylor: All The Notes as Himself
- 2005 · Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet as Self
- 1998 · Bulworth as Rastaman
- 1997 · Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit as Himself (as LeRoy Jones-Baraka)
- 1994 · ER as Reid
- 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
- 1982 · I Heard It Through the Grapevine as Self
- 1981 · Death of a Prophet as
- 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
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1970 · Black Journal: 23; New-Ark as Self
- 1969 · The New-Ark as Self