Amiri Baraka war ein US-amerikanischer Lyriker, Dramatiker, Musikkritiker und Prosaautor. Er wurde am 7. Oktober 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, geboren und starb dort am 9. Januar 2014. Er war auch unter den Namen Everett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones und Imamu Amear Baraka bekannt. Baraka studierte an der Howard University und an der Columbia University. Zu seinen Auszeichnungen zählen das Guggenheim-Stipendium, die Langston-Hughes-Medaille, ein National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, der American Book Award und die Aufnahme in die Black Literary Hall of Fame.
Filmografie
Filme
2025 – castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2024 – Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2009 – Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2008 – Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008 – New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2007 – Retour à Gorée
2007 – Turn Me On
2007 – Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2006 – Poets at the Living Theater
2006 – Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006 – The Pact
2005 – Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005 – Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
1998 – Bulworth
1997 – Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1996 – W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
1989 – James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1987 – Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1983 – In Motion: Amiri Baraka
1982 – Speaking in Tongues
1982 – Poetry in Motion
1982 – I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1981 – Malcolm X - Tod eines Propheten
1979 – Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1978 – Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1972 – Nationtime: Gary
1971 – 1 P.M.
1970 – Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1969 – The New-Ark Serien
1994 – Emergency Room – Die Notaufnahme
1971 – Great Performances
Filme
2025 – castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2024 – Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2009 – Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2008 – Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008 – New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2007 – Retour à Gorée
2007 – Turn Me On
2007 – Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2006 – Poets at the Living Theater
2006 – Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006 – The Pact
2005 – Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
2005 – Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
1998 – Bulworth
1997 – Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1996 – W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
1989 – James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1987 – Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1983 – In Motion: Amiri Baraka
1982 – Speaking in Tongues
1982 – Poetry in Motion
1982 – I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1981 – Malcolm X - Tod eines Propheten
1979 – Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1978 – Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1972 – Nationtime: Gary
1971 – 1 P.M.
1970 – Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1969 – The New-Ark Serien
1994 – Emergency Room – Die Notaufnahme
1971 – Great Performances