NEWARK — Amiri Baraka, son of Newark, the city he loved and never abandoned, was all about contradictions and brilliance. He was a renowned American poet — and to some eventually more agitator ...

Amiri Baraka, the state's former poet laureate and a revered author, poet and activist, has died. He was 79. Baraka is shown in this 2009 file photo. (Star-Ledger file photo) NEWARK — Amiri ...

Never shy about his revolutionary views, Amiri Baraka gave New Jersey’s governor fair warning of possible fireworks when he was named the state’s poet laureate. “You’re gonna catch hell ...

Amiri Baraka, here participating in a Newark Museum panel discussion about the social, political and cultural climate of the 1950s, has died at the age of 79. (Matt Rainey/Star-Ledger file photo ...

Amiri Baraka hasn't mellowed with age. One of the last surviving authors of the Beat Generation, and an enduring symbol of Newark's political turmoil four decades ago, Baraka turns 75 next week.

Author Amiri Baraka sparked a lot of controversy with his writings — and those controversies were reignited with his recent passing. Host Michel Martin speaks with author and professor Mark ...

He's one of America's most important literary figures. In the 1960s, Amiri Baraka co-founded the Black Arts Movement. It promoted a black nationalist perspective on art and influenced a generation ...

Chicago had Carl Sandburg. Paterson had William Carlos Williams. And Newark was lucky enough to have two: Amiri Baraka and Philip Roth. Hard to imagine two writers more different. Or, possibly ...

Amiri Baraka, one of the most influential African American writers of his generation, who courted controversy as a poet, playwright and provocateur and who was a primary intellectual architect of ...

Long before his death, last week, at the age of seventy-nine, Amiri Baraka attained the status reserved for those Americans whose unruly complexities and contradictions spill beyond the neat ...

By Alan Scherstuhl When he first read Amiri Baraka’s epochal study “Blues People: Negro Music in White America,” originally published in 1963, Russell Gunn felt that he already understood ...