Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has a long history of surrounding himself with people accused of abusing women, according to a Fox News Digital review of news reports.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a top Democratic candidate for New Jersey governor, allegedly hired family members and regularly associated with people with histories of sexual misconduct allegations.

My father taught me about jazz, poetry, and philosophy, but he couldn’t show me how to be Black and a Red Sox fan.

Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones), the Maoist revolutionary who was called “the primary theorist of the Black Arts Movement” – one of his theories being that “most American white men are trained to ...

Two of Fulton County’s premier legacy organizations, Hammonds House Museum and the National Black Arts Festival, partner to ...

Trap Door Theatre has announced its 2025–2026 season, featuring Green Corridors by Natalka Vorozhbyt, a new adaptation of Le ...

Vinson Cunningham on the artist Rashid Johnson’s exhibition “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” a sprawling survey at the Guggenheim.

It was 1968 and a strike to include ethnic studies in the San Francisco State curriculum brought poet Amiri Baraka there to promote the role of the Black arts in mobilizing communities.

New York City — and specifically Manhattan — was understood to be the Prime Target and hence Ground Zero in a nuclear war.

That is what Toni Morrison did in her work, Nina Simone, Amiri Baraka, Lorraine Hansberry, Stevie Wonder did and does in his music.