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Dutchman: A classic drama
The <i>&#8220;Dutchman&#8221;</i> by Leroi Jones (also known as Amiri Imamu Baraka) opened Off-Broadway in New York City on 24 March 1964 and received the Obie award, it remains his signature play.
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Dutchman: A classic drama
The <i>&#8220;Dutchman&#8221;</i> by Leroi Jones (also known as Amiri Imamu Baraka) opened Off-Broadway in New York City on 24 March 1964 and received the Obie award, it remains his signature play.
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In the Wake of BAM
Similar to social and political change American African Literature and Poetry has ridden on the waves of movements. The most recent movement of significance in Black America was the Black Arts Movement...
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Poet Laureate Loses Laureateship
Amiri Baraka lost his New Jersey poet laureateship when the Anti-Defamation League denounced Baraka's anti-Semitism in "Somebody Blew Up America."
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Saintly Visions or Blind Faith? (Part Three of Three)
A look at 20th-Century Romanticism in Three American Classics: F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and J.D. Salinger's "Seymour: An Introduction."
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Classic Soul and Today's Soul
Soul music reached its high point during the 1960s and early 1970s. It declined during the 1980s, but reemerged in the late 1990s, which has led to a soul Renaissance.
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Joyce Johnson's Minor Characters
Author Joyce Johnson's memoir about life with Jack Kerouac and beyond.
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The Godfather of Rap
In Music is My Life, Politics My Mistress, director donnie l betts is the first to comprehensively tell the life story of Oscar Brown Jr. He talks about the challenges.
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Who are Asa Bundy Sheffey, John Birks Gillespie and Fayard Nicholas?
A short look at three men. Men who are artist, although in different fields. Men who are Baha'is. Men who are African-American.
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