The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
In 1969, Larry Neal, a black writer, published an essay titled “Any Day Now: Black Art and Black Liberation.” In it, Neal tried to clarify the goals of the Black Arts Movement, an ideological aesthetic that was first laid out by the poet and activist Amiri Baraka, after Malcolm X’s . . .
Felicia Pride (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
When I was leaving in Brooklyn (which seems like a lifetime ago), I had to pleasure to attend the first Ft. Greene Literary Festival. Got to get autographs from Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez and even showed Baraka the original BackList t-shirt. He raved about it! Although I won't be able to attend the fourth annual festival, I can assure you that it will be a good time. Check it out: 2008 Fort Greene...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
The weekly Jazz music podcast Jazzism (a katzpheno mix) is on the path of peace, showcasing mellow Jazz Fusion and verbal deepness from Ainsley Burrows, Amiri Baraka and Gil Scott - Heron. Host and Producer Brian Phoenix invites all young Jazz and Spoken Word lovers to get their vibe on this Friday 8/15 at... "the one place on the webspace, where you get nothing but the best the world has to offer...
The Gowanus Lounge (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
The Fourth Annual Fort Greene Park Literary Festival takes place on August 23 and will feature poet Amiri Baraka. Here’s a bit from the email we got: The 4th annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival will present a free outdoor reading on August 23rd at 3:00 PM featuring young writers aged seven to eighteen reading [...]
Dr. Lester K. Spence (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Well…not exactly. But close enough. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4LxlmYfrLI Just like the “hecklers” had to raise hell to get the mic in the Obama townhall meeting, the only way that progressives and working class interests have gotten government to work for them is through agitation. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d489').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Amiri Baraka and Woodie King, Jr’s New Federal Theatre, in association with City Parks Theatre, proudly presents the 2008 production of iconic playwright Amiri’s Baraka’s dynamic drama, “The Toilet” is a riveting play exemplary of several recurring themes in Baraka’s critically acclaimed work, which often depicts the drama of the sensitive, isolated individual pitted against the [...]
Vulture (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
As anyone familiar with James Campbell’s columns in the Times Literary Supplement knows, the Scot is a critic of uncommonly wide interests in America. His latest essay collection solidifies the impression with pieces on writers as various as William Maxwell, Amiri Baraka, and Edmund White. Neither does he shy from juicy, gossipy tidbits, as “Updike’s Sex Village” and “Franzen, Oprah, and High Art”...
The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
An appeals court today upheld the convictions of a Newark man for the 2003 murders of Shani Baraka, 31, the daughter of poet Amiri Baraka, and her friend, Rayson Holmes,30, in Piscataway. The court rejected the arguments of El-Amin Pasha,...
Room Eight (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
You have to hand it to Hip-Hop Philosopher and Congressional candidate Kevin Powell; he’s got two great virtues that serve him both as writer and political candidate. The first is an inability to blush, and the second is a boundless imagination. This week, Powell issued a web video in which he portrayed himself as a change agent in the tradition of Barack Obama, Maryland Congresswoman Donna Edwards...
BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Amiri Baraka, Guest Commentary - The post Word War 1 journey of Germany from an Empire, which was overthrown and then a Democratic republic and finally the overthrow of that republic and the emergence and domination of Hitler’s Nazi Fascism, is important for us to understand. Because some of the facts of these years still apply [...]
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Amiri Baraka offers personal insights on Dr. Teer, Sunday at 10:00 am on KISS-FM’s Open Line. Listen to live broadcast on 98.7 FM. Archives Photo credit: Ruth Fremson/New York Times
Dr. Lester K. Spence (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Amiri Baraka wrote a long letter to members of the black left before the June Black Radical Congress Meeting. You can find the entire speech here but I first found out about it over at P6. I can boil down the speech without doing too much damage to the following essential points: *the Black Left should do [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
A reader wrote in to tell us that Warren Olney invited Amiri Baraka to speak on To The Point today about the whole Jesse Jackson / Barack Obama "balls brawl." Olney never mentions that Baraka is a controversial figure regarded by many to be an anti-Semite -- an oversight that irks our reader. The reader, of course, blogged about it, and wrote Olney an e-mail, which prompted this response: continued...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
A reader wrote in to tell us that Warren Olney invited Amiri Baraka to speak on To The Point today about the whole Jesse Jackson/Barack Obama "balls brawl." Olney never mentions that Baraka is a controversial figure regarded by many to be an anti-Semite -- an oversight that irks our reader. The reader, of course, blogged about it, and wrote Olney an e-mail, which prompted this response: continued...
Quomodocumque (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Two free events tomorrow night at Memorial Union: 7pm: Amiri Baraka 9pm: The Muppet Movie
