Amiri continues to offer suiting, with elongated and relaxed tailoring, as well as crochet and knits. The collection includes figure-hugging evening dresses (including halters), distressed jersey ...

Poet, playwright, and political activist, Amiri Baraka is one of the nation's most influential artists. He was born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey and graduated from Howard University in 1953.

Amiri Baraka stands by his words New Jersey's poet laureate, facing a hailstorm of criticism for his fevered 9/11 poem, tells Salon that 4,000 Israelis really did stay home from the WTC that day.

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 ...

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 ...