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Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.

Known For: Acting

Born: Newark, New Jersey, USA , 1934-10-07

Died: 2014-01-09

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	The New-Ark	Self	0
2	1970	Black Journal: 23; New-Ark	Self	0
3	1971	1 P.M.	Self	58
4	1972	Nationtime	Self	80
5	1978	Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement	Self	0
6	1979	Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds	Self	65
7	1981	Death of a Prophet		41
8	1982	I Heard It Through the Grapevine	Self	0
9	1982	Poetry in Motion	Self	70
10	1983	In Motion: Amiri Baraka	Himself	0
11	1987	Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper	Himself	0
12	1989	James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket	Self	15
13	1997	Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit	Self	52
14	1998	Bulworth	Rastaman	63
15	2005	Cecil Taylor: All The Notes	Himself	0
16	2005	Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet	Self	80
17	2006	The Pact	Himself	0
18	2006	Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow	Self	64
19	2006	Poets at the Living Theater	Self	0
20	2007	Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place		0
21	2007	Turn Me On	Self	0
22	2007	Return to Gorée	Self	90
23	2008	New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture	Himself	0
24	2008	Obscene	Self	50
25	2009	Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder	Self	50
26	2024	Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
2	1994	ER	Reid	78