Baraka didn’t “break out” into popular culture the way James Baldwin or Toni ... pressured out of their homes. Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka is Blues People. Amiri Baraka’s son.

2022.Get Photo Council member-at-large elect Rev. Louise Scott-Rountree speaks in Newark, NJ on Tuesday, May 10, 2022.Get Photo Amiri Baraka welcomes guests to his brothers victory party in Newark ...

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 different. Or, possibly ...

You know we do a food distribution every week in the city of Newark on Wednesdays and they just added to the gifts in terms of giving out more food to people," Amiri Baraka the Mayor's Chief of ...