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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 Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
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ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated phy...
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfo...
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bl...
After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matte...
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathe...
An exploration into the life and art of the renowned author of "Last Exit To Brooklyn" and "Requiem For A Dream...
A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works lik...
A gritty, provocative true-life story of three friends from the 'hood, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, and George J...
Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cine...
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For wel...
More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles...
Because jazz is the miraculous product of the horror of slavery, Youssou N'Dour returned to the slave route and...
James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial de...
This video portrait, filmed in the days leading up to Amiri Baraka’s appeal of his 90-day sentence for resistin...
This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining i...
Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventi...
This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg's apartment. You see Allen, now asleep f...
A short documentary subject made for National Educational Television's Black Journal television program documen...
With Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Ray Bremser, Le Roi Jones, Peter Orlovsky, this film takes place in the Livi...
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the...
The long and remarkable life of Dr. William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B) Du Bois (1868-1963) offers unique insights...
One in a series of 13 documentaries on renowned American poets produced by the New York Center for Visual Histo...
The film recounts the "First International Festival of Poets" held on the beach at Castelporziano in 1979, inte...
Out of the underground archives and the emblematic figures of these avant-garde movements, featuring Steve Ben...
The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political acti...
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting...
Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn some time ago. The best accounts agree that he emerged on Earth as Herman...
The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through i...
Doug Harris's 1982 avant-garde jazz film Speaking in Tongues was funded by German Public Television channel ZDF...
Beginning as a city-symphony of Newark streets, buildings, and people set to wordless chanting, The New-Ark qui...