Activist, poet-playwright Amiri Baraka dies at 79
Amiri Baraka, militant man of letters, leader of the 1960s Black Arts movement, a tireless agitator whose blues-based poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in culture, a father to us at Chimurenga has died. He was 79. Short Speech to My Friends (2:27): MP3 I Love Music (2:15): MP3 […]
To Be or Not To Bop
To Be or Not To Bop by Amiri Baraka I was into the Orioles, Ruth Brown, Larry Darnell, Louis Jordan, The Ravens – ya know, the late ’40s, just going into high school – when my 1st cousin George let me have his older brother Sonny’s BeBop collection! I got those old Guilds, Manors, […]