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...

Hibernian 0 Celtic 4 Thom 31, 74, Van Hooijdonk 61, Donnelly 77 Attendance: 14,135 The word is that Pierre van Hooijdonk is on his way to Aston Villa to replace Savo Milosevic with just pounds 3.5m changing hands; someone, somewhere, has got...

Byline: JUSTIN DAVIS TOUR debutant Karsten Kroon had tears in his eyes yesterday after bagging his first major stage win three years after turning professional. The 26- year- old Rabobank rider topped a Dutch 1-2-3 at the finish line of the 217km...

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...