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Sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department and Roxbury Community College, the conference will address the effect 1960s Black writers have had on contemporary poets and feature poets such as Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka...
Compared with militant poems by writers like Baraka in the 1960s, poetry has become "more private, more personal, more subjective," said poet and author Ishmael Reed, visiting professor of Afro-American literature from the University of California at Berkeley...
This past Christmas Eve, Khashoggi entertained some 60 guests at his 5,000- acre spread on Spain's postcard Mediterranean coast. For the occasion, La Baraka (in Arabic, "the blessings of God") was transformed into a Moorish palace: gold chandeliers draped in white leaves and red streamers, the ceiling of the 50-ft.-high ballroom covered with shimmering silver and gold spangles like the fringes on a flapper's dress. That night, like a magnanimous feudal lord, Khashoggi, in a gray-and-black satin tuxedo, greeted his guests with kisses on both cheeks. Servants trooped into the ballroom carrying great...
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...
...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...