Category: Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka, then known as poet Leroi Jones, is photographed in August 1984. | Source: Susan Biddle / Getty UPDATED: 3:30 p.m. ET, Oct. 7, 2024 Amiri Baraka

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka will join his sister, historian Kellie Jones, to celebrate their late father’s seminal book Blues People: Negro Music in White America. In honor of