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Amiri Baraka Tribute at the HBF Newark
Amiri Baraka Tribute at the HBF Newark Author Interviews
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka 0000000446460520 Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was a prolific 20th-century African American writer, poet, and Obie-winning playwright. Known for works such as “Blues People” a...
HBF Publishers
HBF Publishers Troy Johnson Article About HBF Publishers http://www.hbfpublishers.comHBF Publishers is a publishing house dedicated to providing a unique and simple ...
Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka
Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka MULTIPLE Explore the life and works of Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka, influential figures in the 1967 Newark literary scene. Learn more about Larry Neal Learn more about Ami...
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People Haki Madhubuti, Michael Simanga, Sonia Sanchez, and Woodie King 9780883783559 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Brilliant ...
Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka
Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka MULTIPLE Amiri and Amina Baraka are renowned authors known for their profound contributions to literature and activism, using their work to inspire social change. Amiri ...
Ras Baraka
Ras Baraka NONE "Ras Baraka, son of famed poets and father of three, is a published author. His latest work, 'Black Girls Learn Love Hard', is a tribute to his late sister, Shani Baraka.” Ras Baraka ...
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader Amiri Baraka 9781560252382 Poetry Basic Books Perseus Books Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-...
Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)
Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) Amiri Baraka 9781568860138 Poetry Marsilio Publishers Marsilio Publishers The poems selected here span from Baraka’s first collection,...
VIDEO: Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet
VIDEO: Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet Troy Johnson Article Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary PoetExhibit at Zambezi Bazaar in conjunction with the Leimert Park Book Fair.Ami...
Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed
Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed MULTIPLE Prominent authors Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., an...
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka Jean-Philippe Marcoux 9780814257845 Nonfiction The Ohio State University Press The Ohio State University Press This collection of original essays bri...
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series)
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series) Amiri Baraka 9781933354675 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negroand always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bo...
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka 9781574780390 Fiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing was origin...
A Black Fire!
A Black Fire! Ras Baraka 9781574781182 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press A Black Fire! was written and delivered by Ras Baraka at the home going celebration for his father, Amiri Bara...
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520265820 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...
Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music
Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520257153 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...
S O S: Poems 1961-2013
S O S: Poems 1961-2013 Amiri Baraka 9780802123350 Poetry Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceFusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka"who...
Razor
Razor Amiri Baraka 9780883783009 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Intended to cut clean through the oppression imposed upon the mainstream by society’s ""intellectual superstructure,"" this ...
The Autobiography Of Leroi Jones
The Autobiography Of Leroi Jones Amiri Baraka 9780881910223 Nonfiction Lawrence Hill Books Lawrence Hill Books The complete autobiography of a literary legend. Poet, dramatist, nov...
Valerie Wilson Wesley April 28, 2012 HBF Newark
Valerie Wilson Wesley April 28, 2012 HBF Newark Author Interviews
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Blues People: Negro Music in White America Amiri Baraka 9780688184742 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins "The path the slave took to ’citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analo...
Tales
Tales Amiri Baraka 9781617753954 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A reissue of a 1967 story collection shows a mind in motion and graphs Baraka’s thoughts during that turbulent period.“Baraka’s sto...
“Furious Flower” Conference Celebrates African American Poetry
“Furious Flower” Conference Celebrates African American Poetry Jamie Walker Article Harrisonburg, Virginia: Over sixty distinguished poets and scholars gathered to help set the agenda for African A...
The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) Amiri Baraka 9781617753961 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lo...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v2 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2010 “The Power of ...
Black Music
Black Music Amiri Baraka 9781933354934 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The long-awaited reissue (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) of the sequel to Amiri Baraka’s seminal work, Blues Pe...
Tales of the Out & Gone
Tales of the Out & Gone Amiri Baraka 9781933354125 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Controversial literary legend Amiri Baraka’s new short story collection will shock and awe.
Confirmation: Anthology of African American Women
Confirmation: Anthology of African American Women Amiri Baraka 9780688015824 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins Book by Baraka, Imamu Amiri
Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X
Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X MULTIPLE
Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women
Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka 9780688015800 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins
Black Girls Learn Love Hard
Black Girls Learn Love Hard Ras Baraka 9780965830850 Poetry Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Ras Baraka’s "Black Girls Learn Love Hard" (Moore Black Press 2006) is more than a brother mourning the ...
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Jeff Hobbs 9781476731902 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. A heartfelt, and ri...
Amiri’s Birthday Wish
Amiri’s Birthday Wish Florenza Denise Lee 9781941328262 Fiction Words to Ponder Publishing Company Words to Ponder Publishing Company Do you like playing the Guessing Game? So does Amiri’s family, and...
Amiri’s Birthday Wish
Amiri’s Birthday Wish Florenza Denise Lee 9781941328279 Nonfiction Words to Ponder Publishing Company Words to Ponder Publishing Company Do you like playing the Guessing Game? Well, so does Amiri’s fa...
Digging
Digging Robert Fleming Book Review The literary legacy of award-winning writer and poet Amiri Baraka continues to thrive as he releases another new book, Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of ...
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (paperback): A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (paperback): A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Jeff Hobbs 9781476731919 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Now a m...
Jasmine Mans
Jasmine Mans NONE Jasmine Mans, a Black American poet and artist from Newark, NJ, is a University of Wisconsin Madison graduate. Author of the 2012 poetry collection, Chalk Outlines of Snow Angels, a...
What I’d Say: On Writing “Frankie Five Hundred”
What I’d Say: On Writing “Frankie Five Hundred” Michael A. Gonzales Article Recently my short story “Frankie Five Hundred” was published on the literary website Evergreen Review. Founded ...
Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People: History and Memory (2015)
Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People: History and Memory (2015) Michael Simanga 9780230112155 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers This important look at Congress of African P...
Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet
Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet Poetry & Spoken Word
Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems Amiri Baraka 9780913441619 Poetry House of Nehesi Publishers House of Nehesi Publishers A new collection of poems.
The Essence of Reparations
The Essence of Reparations Amiri Baraka 9780913441602 Poetry House of Nehesi Publishers House of Nehesi Publishers A new collection of Essays on American history; Black studies; progressive political ...
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed 9780792269823 Nonfiction National Geographic Nation...
Black Voices
Black Voices Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X 978045152782...
Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism
Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism Kimberly W. Benston 9780415009485 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of Black cultur...
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry D-Knowledge 9781573226547 Poetry Riverhead Books Penguin Random House African-American poetry is an ever-growin...
Eulogies
Eulogies Amiri Baraka 9781568860077 Poetry Marsilio Publishers Marsilio Publishers eulogies for James Baldwin, Miles Davis, many more
Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974-1979
Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974-1979 Amiri Baraka 9780688034320 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins
Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays
Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays Amiri Baraka 9780688210847 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking pl...
Kwasi Ramsey
Kwasi Ramsey NONE Baltimore-born author Kwasi Ramsey, winner of the CLA Margaret Walker and Red Sparrow Poetry Awards, is inspired by poets like Amiri Baraka and musicians such as Tupac Shakur. Kwasi...
Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Jean-Philippe Marcoux 0000000108385791 Jean-Philippe Marcoux is a Professor of American Literature at Laval University, specializing in African American literature, postmodernist fiction, poetry, and...
jessica Care moore
jessica Care moore 0000000043767122 jessica Care moore is an internationally renowned poet/ publisher/ activist/ rock star/ playwright and actor. She is a five-time Showtime at the Apollo winn...
Brenda M. Greene
Brenda M. Greene 000000008095850X Dr. Brenda M. Greene is a respected professor, writer, and scholar, leading the Center for Black Literature and the National Black Writers Conference. She has contri...
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Robert Fleming Book Review Jazz is dead! If you believe that mess, you must not listen to radio or read any of the mainstream media. Howeve...
Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico
Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico Ishmael Reed 9781771861854 Fiction Baraka Books Baraka Books The War of Rebellion still divides the United States. Some rebel generals, whom the famous pro-confede...
Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman
Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman Gerald L. Early 9781603293549 Nonfiction The Modern Language Association of America The Modern Language Association of America First performed in 1964, Amiri B...
Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California
Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California Reginald Martin Interview REGINALD MARTIN: Camus wrote in "Neither Victims nor Executioners" that the only really committed a...
The Boys of Baraka
The Boys of Baraka Kam Williams the_bo3.jpg Film Review Kenya as Alternative to Mean Streets of Baltimore The Boys of Baraka Directed by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady Genre: Documentary Runtime: 8...
Of Time and Spirit: A Tribute to My Father
Of Time and Spirit: A Tribute to My Father Maurice W. Dorsey 9781664130197 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions Of Time and Spirit: A Tribute to James Roswell Dorsey Sr. "Of Time and Spirit" is ...
Block Party 5k1 Book 1: Diplomatic Immunity
Block Party 5k1 Book 1: Diplomatic Immunity Al-Saadiq Banks 9780692533154 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications One of the most vicious gangsters to ever walk the streets of Newark...
Block Party 5k1 Book 2: Diplomatic Immunity
Block Party 5k1 Book 2: Diplomatic Immunity Al-Saadiq Banks 9780692533291 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications One of the most vicious gangsters to ever walk the streets of Newark...
Fatherhoodlum: Chronicles Of A Prison Dad
Fatherhoodlum: Chronicles Of A Prison Dad Michael B. Jackson 9780970743657 Fiction Joint FX Press Joint FX Press Based on a true story, FatherHoodlum is the captivating and inspirational story of Lamo...
Defying the Odds - Triumphant Black Women of Newark
Defying the Odds - Triumphant Black Women of Newark Barbara J Kukla 9780976813002 Nonfiction Swing City Press Swing City Press This book focuses on an especially rich aspect of the history of Newark, ...
Anasa Maat
Anasa Maat NONE Dr. Anasa Maat, a retired educator from Newark, NJ, holds degrees from Montclair and Rutgers Universities. She is a prolific author of four novels. Known for her civic engagement, she...
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art Kellie Jones 9780822348733 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kell...
Nathan C. Heard
Nathan C. Heard NONE Nathan C. Heard (1936-2004) was a celebrated author, teacher, and actor. Known as a pioneer of “street literature,” he gained fame with his book Howard Street, written during his...
Continuum: New And Selected Poems, Revised Edition
Continuum: New And Selected Poems, Revised Edition Mari Evans 9781933491165 Poetry Sankofa Books Just Us Books, Inc. Evans paints an intimate portrait of the Black experience in the more than 10...
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented Herb Boyd 9780883783368 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Compiled as a response to Manning Marable’s controversial new biogra...
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays Sonia Sanchez 9780822347781 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books "Sonia Sanchez remains one of the ...
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora Sheree Renée Thomas 9780446525831 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group This volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and ...
360° A Revolution of Black Poets
360° A Revolution of Black Poets Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander 9780739415856 Poetry BlackWords BlackWords At poetry slams, in coffee houses and cafes, on spoken word CDs, and even featured in H...
Marvin X Unplugged An Interview by Lee Hubbard
Marvin X Unplugged An Interview by Lee Hubbard Kam Williams Interview Marvin X Unplugged An Interview by Lee Hubbard While drugs and their impact have been talked about, no one has rea...
Black Renaissance Noire
Black Renaissance Noire Troy Johnson Article Selected by Library Journal as one of the ten best magazines of 1996 Vol. 3 No. 1 Fall 2000 Manthia Diawara Editor-in-C...
On-line Writers Workshop
On-line Writers Workshop Troy Johnson Article WANTED: Black Writers with balls and ovaries of teflon and steel who can put up with heat waves, flashbacks, old lovers and word processors who c...
We Are Worth Fighting for (paperback): A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989
We Are Worth Fighting for (paperback): A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 Joshua M. Myers 9781479816767 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press The Howar...
We Are Worth Fighting for: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989
We Are Worth Fighting for: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 Joshua M. Myers 9781479811755 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press The Howard University...
Surya Bonaly: A Tribute
Surya Bonaly: A Tribute Carol Denise Mitchell 9798248917082 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Surya Bonaly’s story has been told before—but never like this. This tribute of...
The Book of Hov: A Tribute to Jay-Z
The Book of Hov: A Tribute to Jay-Z Jay-Z 9781649804259 Nonfiction Assouline Publishing Assouline Publishing The Classic Edition of The Book of HOV, weighing nearly 5 punds, is presented in JAY-Z blue...
Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin
Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin James Baldwin 9780870236778 Nonfiction University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Press This book is a transcription ...
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival DuEwa M. Frazier Article Up South International Book Festival September 19th ’ September 23rd 2007 www...
Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions
Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions Kysha N. Brown and Kalamu ya Salaam 9780965385404 Fiction Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Read Why Fertile Ground is Such an Important Work Fertile Ground...
North Jersey Literary Festival
North Jersey Literary Festival Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rutgers University-Newark, University Heights Newark New Jersey The FIRST annual North Jersey Literary Festival, where entrepreneurship meets...
A Cold Fire Burning
A Cold Fire Burning Nathan C. Heard 9781878923042 Fiction Amok Books Amok Books A Cold Fire Burning brilliantly depicts an interracial love story amidst the political changes of the early Seventies. S...
Marcus Major
Marcus Major 0000000038042522 Marcus Major, born in Fort Bragg, followed a transient childhood due to his father's military career. He studied Literature and African-American Studies at Richard Stock...
Avalon Soulette Brown
Avalon Soulette Brown NONE Avalon S. Brown, a dedicated nurse with 30 years of experience, is a graduate of Essex County College Nursing Program. She is deeply religious and believes in bringing heal...
A. Van Jordan
A. Van Jordan NONE A. Van Jordan, an award-winning poet, is known for collections like Rise and M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A. He's received numerous accolades including the Whiting Writers Award, Anisfield-Wolf B...
Ebony Dawn
Ebony Dawn NONE Ebony Dawn, also known as Pat Ebron, is a Newark native writer with a romantic perspective on life, influenced by old movies and diverse music. She has written plays, children's stori...
Naseed Gifted
Naseed Gifted NONE Naseed Gifted, an engineer, educator, and writer from Newark is the Creative Director of PBS Media. Gifted uses his passion for comics to innovate projects that engage all audience...
Saeed Jones
Saeed Jones 0000000365991477 Saeed Jones, award-winning author of 'Prelude to Bruise', is known for his work at BuzzFeed as an LGBT and Culture editor, as well as co-host of AM to DM. Born in Memphis...
Lynnette Mawhinney
Lynnette Mawhinney NONE Dr. Lynnette Mawhinney, a children's book author and award-winning scholar, is dedicated to diversifying teaching. She's a professor at Rutgers University-Newark, specializing...
William Byrd
William Byrd 0000000109367704 Dr. William “Super” Byrd, a Newark native, is an acclaimed author and educator specializing in Sports Education. A holder of multiple degrees and professional licenses, ...
Defying the Odds
Defying the Odds Kam Williams Book Review ’Whether the threat is a burning cross in a sleepy Southern town, or a female doctor bucking the whites-only hiring policies of a city h...
The Pact
The Pact Kam Williams the_pa18.jpg Film Review Three Black Boys from Newark Overcome Odds to Become Doctors The Pact Click to order via Amazon ...
Amiri and Odette: A Love Story
Amiri and Odette: A Love Story Walter Dean Myers 9780590680417 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. In this modern retelling of the Swan Lake ballet, acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers explores th...
His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute
His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute Maya Angelou 9780812997019 Poetry Random House Penguin Random House He was a son of Africa who became father to a nation and, for billions of people around th...
Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute To E. Lynn Harris
Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute To E. Lynn Harris Terrance Dean, James Earl Hardy, and Stanley Bennett Clay 9780758255754 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Visible Lives: Three S...