Baraka, Amiri

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African American poet, playwright, novel writer and civil rights activist. Born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey in 1934. Studied literature, philosophy and religion at Rutgers University, Columbia University, Howard University and the New School of Social Research. Amiri Baraka's published collections of poetry include Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961), Black Magic (1969), It's Nation Time (1970), Hard Facts (1975), Poetry for the Advanced (1979), Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1995), Funk Lore: New Poems, (1996).