Articles related to "Amiri Baraka"

Amiri Baraka lost his New Jersey poet laureateship when the Anti-Defamation League denounced Baraka's anti-Semitism in "Somebody Blew Up America."

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.

Author Joyce Johnson's memoir about life with Jack Kerouac and beyond.

Good news! The Festival, once threatened by the economic recession, is on for October 2010. Go to hear Billy Collins and other great poets, and rediscover what matters.

The music of Miles Davis encapsulated the many sides of his prodigious talent with that familiar provocative "Me-ness" that always identified his work instantly.

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.