"I don't think that there's any man today, present today, that has the kind of moral authority or spiritual strength,'' ...

As Newark deputy mayor, Baraka said introducing Farrakhan at a speech where he espoused violent and conspiratorial views was ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka leads polls in New Jersey’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. He could become the state’s first Black ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s link to controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is coming under scrutiny as he makes a bid to become New Jersey’s next governor. Farrakhan, 91, has been ...

In The Dutchman, Andre Gaines retrofits Amiri Baraka’s caustic play about a fatal encounter ... At the time of its production, Baraka was divorcing his first wife, the white Jewish poet Hettie Jones, ...

In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits.

Writer-director Andre Gaines takes Amiri Baraka's 1964 play about the encounter between a reserved Black man and a roguish white woman into the modern age. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic ...

In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits. In the introduction to his 2003 essay collection In the Break, Fred Moten lays out the importance ...

A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and ...

Performance should not only be for entertainment but to instruct, correct, and propose new forms or ways to restructure society”, said Joel Cicero, an award-winning spoken word poet, actor and writer.