Amiri Baraka was African American ... Roth, by contrast, was a cultural insider — the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, the darling of the New York Times Literary Supplement ...

The obits for Amiri Baraka are coming thick and fast—at The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. I don’t think this is surprising or ...