The African American author Imamu Amiri Baraka (born 1934 as Everett LeRoi Jones) became influential during the 1960s as a spokesperson for radical black literature and theater. Born as Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, on October 30, 1934, Bara...

An influential figure among the literary avant-garde of Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Amiri Baraka (known as LeRoi Jones until 1968) has been a seminal force in the development of contemporary Afro-Ameri...

An influential figure among the literary avant-garde of Greenwich Village and the lower East Side during the late 1950s and early 1950s, Amiri Baraka (known as LeRoi Jones until 1968) has been a seminal force in the development of contemporary Afro-Ameri...

The city of Brahms and Mendelssohn is enhancing its cultural charm with a new concert hall that will soar above the Elbe River like a ghostly glass-sailed schooner.The futuristic concert hall, designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, will tower 360 feet...

Do you find your fingers drifting into your mouth when you're nervous, anxious or just bored? Are your nails chewed to splinters or your cuticles gnawed to bleeding pulp?Nail biting is more than a bad habit. Doctors say it is one of the most common...

Do you find your fingers drifting into your mouth when you're nervous, anxious or just bored? Are your nails chewed to splinters or your cuticles gnawed to bleeding pulp?Nail biting is more than a bad habit. Doctors say it is one of the most common...

There are certain pivotal plays that make mighty noises in small rooms, and Dutchman, by the black activist LeRoi Jones—now known as Amiri Baraka—is famously one of them. At little more than 50 minutes in length, this furious 1964 prose poem has been revived in...