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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Amiri Baraka was an influential African-American writer, poet, and playwright who founded the Black Arts Movement and contributed extensively to American literature and drama.
He is best known for foundational plays like Dutchman, extensive collections of poetry, music criticism, and his involvement in political activism.
He is primarily associated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which shaped modern African-American artistic expression.
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