From L: Ali Foley, Keith Surney, Genevieve Corkery, and Carolyn Benjamin in Dutchman at Trap Door Theatre Credit: Chris Popio Written when Amiri Baraka was still going by LeRoi Jones, 1964’s Dutchman ...

Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He ...

The U.S. secured the release of an American citizen being detained in Afghanistan following months of negotiations on Sunday, Fox News has learned. The U.S. and Qatar jointly negotiated for the ...

Art Sato. In the audience that memorable afternoon was legendary poet, dramatist, essayist, and critic A mix of Jazz, Latin, Flamenco, & Tango. Hosted by Art Sato. In the audience that memorable ...

Good news for Newark poets: There’s a new role in town. The City of Newark has launched its inaugural Poet Laureate program, Mayor Ras Baraka announced on Tuesday. The role is open to professional ...

Despite her husband’s betrayal, she recreated herself as the writer she always was. By Jordan Kisner “Unlike any woman in my family or anyone I’d ever actually known, I was going to become — something ...

Banned from Major League Baseball, he turned his disgrace into a personal brand. By Matt Flegenheimer Among the many indignities of being Pete Rose — and he was, for the last 35 years of his life, ...

Newark Natives Philip Roth and Amiri Baraka, two of the city’s most acclaimed literary figures, were “near-exact contemporaries,” award-winning poet, author and educator John Keene said on Wednesday, ...

Every city has its bard. Chicago had Carl Sandburg. Paterson had William Carlos Williams. And Newark was lucky enough to have two: Amiri Baraka and Philip Roth. Hard to imagine two writers more ...

HETTIE JONES: Noted publisher, educator whose marriage was strained by the pressures of being an interracial couple, passes at age 90. PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIEPEDIA New York (AP) – Hettie Jones, an ...

Growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in Laurelton, Queens (her mother chaired local Hadassah chapters), Hettie Cohen dreamed of other places. After college in Virginia she plunged into the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hettie Jones, an award-winning author, publisher and educator who was the first wife and early muse of the author-poet-activist Amiri Baraka and one of the few women in the Beat ...