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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Author and activist Amiri Baraka and exiled South African lawyer Bojana Jordan joined Isaac at a "teach-in" at the Longfellow School of Education. The informal event was part of a ten-day celebration of the Education for Action (E4A) Committee's 20th anniversary...

Author: By Adriane Y. Stewart, | Title: Black Speakers Compare U.S, S. African Racism | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

...struggle of Blacks for equality in the U.S. is similar to the plight of Blacks in South Africa, said poet Baraka, a professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stonybrook...

Author: By Adriane Y. Stewart, | Title: Black Speakers Compare U.S, S. African Racism | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

...that a question to which minorities reply automatically, "As much mine as yours." No one really believes that, there being too much painful evidence to the contrary. Still, many members of minorities wholeheartedly enjoy then" status because it gives them a useful relationship to the mainstream. Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) remarked that a black writer has an advantage because, being black, he has been forced to live in an isolated room in the nation's house, thus when he emerges from that room into the rest of the house, he knows the entire structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Whose Country Is It Anyway? | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Willian J. Harris assistant professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook said he will finish his books on the "poetry and poetics of Amiri Baraka" while working under the auspices of the Afro American Studies Department. Harris said he is "exicted" about coming to Cambridge There is "uncredible energy in that town" he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mellon Board Awards Grants To 16 Assistant Professors | 3/17/1982 | See Source »

...officially, is Dylan Thomas). Ronald Reagan's lyricist might have been the late Oscar Hammerstein II; he would have to pick another. Eisenhower's? Edgar Guest. J.F.K.'s? Another lyricist, perhaps: Alan Jay Lerner. Harry Truman's? Edgar Lee Masters. Richard Nixon's? Imamu Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones). Eugene McCarthy's? Eugene McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: America Needs a Poet Laureate, Maybe | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

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