The opening of the Newark facility has sparked protests outside the fenced-in building, including from Mayor Ras Baraka.

Newark political royalty – the family of the late Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr. – is backing Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) in ...

Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s latest film in theaters now, is a tribute to Black people, their music, and their American experience ...

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Month, and Asian Arts Initiative has an exhibition on view that explores how art and ...

The candidate rolled his eyes at the question. Ras Baraka — mayor of Newark, son of activist poet Amiri Baraka and one of only two people of color running for governor — clearly has gotten ...

Why did you do that?” And you’re like, “Well…” Amiri Baraka’s words loom large in your work and especially in this exhibition. Thinking about a crisis state or the idea that in your cr ...

His father is the late writer and political activist Amiri Baraka. Kabir Moss, a campaign spokesman for Baraka, said that Beyoncé had not endorsed his bid for governor. Beyoncé’s management ...

Beyoncé may have subtly endorsed a new political figure during a recent tour stop. See who she put on the big screen while on tour! Politics can get dangerous for celebrities these days.

The exhibition, named after a poem by Amiri Baraka, spans the breadth of Johnson’s career with almost 90 paintings, sculptures, videos, photographs and installations from the early 2000s to today.

“A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” Rashid Johnson’s knotty retrospective that just opened at the Guggenheim, draws its title from a work by Amiri Baraka. Like that activist writer, the Chicago-born ...

Yet as Amiri Baraka tells us, writing as Leroi Jones in the book Black Music, "To go back in any historical (or emotional) line of ascent in Black music leads us inevitably to religion ...

Mr. Coogler also introduces viewers to the origins of Blues music. Literary giant Amiri Baraka, in his book "Blues People," explains Blues music as: “A native American music, the product of the ...