Polarizing Poet, Playwright Amiri Baraka, Founder of Black Arts Movement, Dies at 79 by Carmel Dagan

Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, died Thursday at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, N.J. He was 79 and had been hospitalized since last month. First published in the 1950s, Baraka crashed... Read more »

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