Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
Acted in
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024
as Self
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009
as Himself
Obscene
2008
as Self
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2008
as Himself
Return to Gorée
2007
as Self
Turn Me On
2007
as Self
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006
as Self
The Pact
2006
as Himself
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005
as Himself
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005
as Self
Bulworth
1998
as Rastaman
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
as Himself (as LeRoy Jones-Baraka)
ER
1994
as Reid
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989
as Self
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987
as Himself
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
1983
as Himself
Poetry in Motion
1982
as self
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982
as Self
Death of a Prophet
1981
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979
as Self
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978
as Self
Nationtime
1972
as Self
1 P.M.
1971
as Self
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970
as Self
The New-Ark
1969
as Self