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| Amiri Baraka |
Amiri Baraka died yesterday;
Janiary 9, 2014. He was an African-American black person and a writer of
poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, essays and music criticism then he won some
awards and honors of poetry, drama and literatures. Across his generation, he
was the most published black writer. The literary style of his writing shows
some negation of American social discrimination for blacks. Though he is famous
in America, not known to Japanese.
In October 7 1934, Baraka was born
inNewark, New Jersy and at this time, he was named LeRoi Jones. After leaving
his university, in 1954, he joined the US Air Force as a gunner. Later, he left
there and began to work on warehouse. Some years later, in 1961, he published
his first book of poet, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note. When Barack
Obama stood for the Presidential election, in 2008, Baraka was supporting him
and blaming for those who criticize Obama, anti-black workers. Then it was said
that blaming is too violent. In2002, scholar Molefi Kate Asante included Amiri Baraka
on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
On January 9, 2014 at Beth Israel
Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey, Amiri Baraka passed away but the reason
is not reported.
references
http://www.biography.com/people/amiri-baraka-9198235
references
http://www.biography.com/people/amiri-baraka-9198235
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