On February 4, 2014, at New York University, poetry, love, and hundreds of Black Arts devotees filled two rooms to honor the activists Jayne Cortez (1934-2012) and Amiri Baraka Continue reading
The Twelfth National Black Writers Conference: Reconstructing the Master Narrative
Sponsored by the Center for Black Literature
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by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
Akashic Books
Reviewed by Robert Fleming
Back in the day, LeRoi Jones was the spiritual and cultural beacon in the late 1960s and 1970s, using his word wizardry, acerbic wit, encyclopedic knowledge, and incendiary social and political vision to provide the necessary guidance Continue reading