* 1934 – Amiri Baraka, American writer

* Amiri Baraka

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" An individual's name change often coincides with a religious conversion ( Muhammad Ali changed his name from Cassius Clay and Louis Farrakhan changed his from Louis Eugene Walcott, for example ) or involvement with the black nationalist movement ( e. g., Amiri Baraka and Assata Shakur ).

As Selby continued to work on his writing, Amiri Baraka, Selby's longtime friend, encouraged Selby to contact Sterling Lord, who at the time was Jack Kerouac's agent.

In a letter to The Cricket, a Newark, New Jersey music magazine edited by Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal, Albert reported that he had seen a strange object in the sky and come to believe that he and his brother " had the right seal of God almighty in our forehead.

One-time Beat writer LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka helped initiate the Black Arts movement.

Saul Williams, for example, cites Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and Bob Kaufman as major influences.

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Baldwin also knew Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Billy Dee Williams, Huey P. Newton, Nikki Giovanni, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet ( with whom he campaigned on behalf of the Black Panther Party ), Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Rip Torn, Alex Haley, Miles Davis, Amiri Baraka, Martin Luther King, Jr., Margaret Mead, Josephine Baker, Allen Ginsberg and Maya Angelou.

Taylor recorded sparingly in the 2000s, but continues to perform with his own ensembles ( the Cecil Taylor Ensemble and the Cecil Taylor Big Band ) as well as with other musicians such as Joe Locke, Max Roach, and the poet Amiri Baraka.

René has performed and recorded as a leader and featured sideman with the crème de la crème of Black Musical tradition, to name a few — Jackie McLean, the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Lionel Hampton-All Stars, Tito Puente Orchestra, Horace Silver, Woody Shaw, Dr. Bill Taylor, Baba Olatunji, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Dexter Gordon, James Moody, Yusef Lateef, Jaco Pastorius, Jerry Gonzales ' Forte Apache Band, Hamza El Din, as well as in collaboration with premier poet-activist Amiri Baraka ( Leroi Jones ).

Artists Amiri Baraka and Taylor Mead hold regular readings and performances in the space.

Notable authors who have been published in The Southern Review include Steve Almond, W. H. Auden, Julianna Baggott, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Rick Bass, John Berryman,

He was a contemporary and friend of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, Leroi Jones ( now known as Amiri Baraka ), Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Bob Kaufman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others.

In contrast, the Beat poets, who included such figures as Jack Kerouac ( 1922 – 1969 ), Allen Ginsberg ( 1926 – 1997 ), Gregory Corso ( 1930 – 2001 ), Joanne Kyger ( born 1934 ), Gary Snyder ( born 1930 ), Diane Di Prima ( born 1934 ), Amiri Baraka ( born 1934 ) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti ( born 1919 ), were distinctly raw. Reflecting, sometimes in an extreme form, the more open, relaxed and searching society of the 1950s and 1960s, the Beats pushed the boundaries of the American idiom in the direction of demotic speech perhaps further than any other group.

* Amiri Baraka ( b. 1934 ), a U. S. writer.

The list of artists who have performed at the Vision Festival is long and varied, including David S. Ware, Sam Rivers, Frank Lowe, Daniel Carter, William Parker, Roy Campbell, Jr., Hamid Drake, Nicole Mitchell, Rob Brown, Kidd Jordan, Henry Grimes, Marc Ribot, Chad Taylor, Rashied Ali, Joe McPhee, Jason Kao Hwang, Jayne Cortez, Fred Anderson, Matthew Shipp, Billy Bang, Eddie Gale, Whit Dickey, Amiri Baraka, Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Lacy, DJ Spooky, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power and Louis Moholo, among others.

There are also commonalities between the New York School and the members of the beat generation poets also active in 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s New York City, including Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Diane di Prima, Diane Wakoski, Anne Waldman, Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders, Norris Embry, and several others.

Fort Greene Park is host to the annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival, an event featuring young writers aged 7 – 18 reading alongside established writers, such as Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sapphire, Gloria Naylor and Jennifer Egan.

The cd package included essays by Amiri Baraka, Ricky Jay and Oliver Sacks.

Some of his notable students include Toni Morrison, Kwame Ture ( Stokely Carmichael ), Kwame Nkrumah, Thomas Sowell, Ossie Davis, and Amiri Baraka ( aka LeRoi Jones ).

* Al Aronowitz, Writer, influential behind-the-scenes 60's culture-broker, wrote the seminal articles that brought Beat culture and Beatlemania into American consciousness, friend of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Amiri Baraka, George Harrison and others, introduced the Beatles to Bob Dylan and marijuana.

The Warning — A Theme for Linda was part of the A Black Quartet with four plays by Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, and Milner, produced by Woodie King, Jr ..

Among the most prominent writers of the African-American Arts Movement were poet Nikki Giovanni ; poet and publisher Don L. Lee, who later became known as Haki Madhubuti ; poet and playwright Leroi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka ; and Sonia Sanchez.

Other poets such as Amiri Baraka, Haki Madhubuti, and Sonia Sanchez aided Knight in obtaining his parole in 1968.

Among the guests featured were Harry Allen, Margaret Atwood, Amiri Baraka, Julian Barnes, Leonard Cohen, David Cronenberg, John Irving, Ray Robertson, Salman Rushdie, and Robert J. Sawyer.

In March 1965 following the 21 February assassination of Malcolm X, LeRoi Jones ( Amiri Baraka ) moved from Manhattan's Lower East Side uptown to Harlem, an exodus considered the symbolic birth of the Black Arts movement.

Although the success of sit-ins and public demonstrations of the Black student movement in the 1960s may have “ inspired black intellectuals, artists, and political activists to form politicized cultural groups ,” many Black Arts activists rejected the non-militant integrational ideologies of the Civil Rights Movement and instead favored those of the Black Liberation Struggle, which placed an emphasis on “ self-determination through self-reliance and Black control of significant businesses, organization, agencies, and institutions .” According to the Academy of American Poets, “ African American artists within the movement sought to create politically engaged work that explored the African American cultural and historical experience .” The importance that the movement placed on Black autonomy is apparent through the creation institutions such as the Black Arts Repertoire Theatre School ( BARTS ), created in the spring of 1964 by Amiri Baraka and other Black artists.

The African-American author and playwright Amiri Baraka's play A Black Mass takes inspiration from the story of Yakub.

The RWH published this critique in a lengthy pamphlet titled Build the Black Liberation Movement, which itself was subsequently criticized as having white chauvinist errors by Amiri Baraka of the League of Revolutionary Struggle in a pamphlet titled RWH on the BLM: Wrong Again !.

In the mid-1960s Cruse, along with LeRoi Jones ( now Amiri Baraka ), founded the Black Arts Theater in Harlem.

Together with the Chinese defense minister Liang Guanglie, and Chief of Staff of the Comoros armed forces Salimou Mohamed Amiri, pledged to increase cooperation between the military of the two nations.

Amiri stated that Comoros will continue to adhere to the One-China policy.

Some ( not all ) members of the ruling family receive a monthly stipend from the Amiri Diwan and a year-end bonus.

Already in the 8th century, literary authorities such as ' Abd al-Hamid ibn Yahya al -' Amiri pointed to the unparalleled eloquence of Ali's sermons and sayings, as did al-Jahiz in the following century.

As Salam al Amiri (,, meaning " Peace to the Amir ") is the national anthem of the state of Qatar.

Some scenes from the film Baraka by Ron Fricke were selected to represent the real world shown by the wallmonitors in the Architect's room.

Liu Kang, the main character in the Mortal Kombat series, is a Shaolin monk, and Kung Lao from the same series, is also a Shaolin monk who seeks to avenge the temple's destruction, ( led by Baraka in Mortal Kombats story ), they were so popular, they were turned into their own video game, Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks.

In addition, new sprites were created to show MKII Raiden and Baraka running and falling from a standing position.

They also wanted to bring back several characters they felt were absent for too long including Sindel, Nightwolf, Baraka and Mileena.