The death of Amiri Baraka this past Thursday at age 79 marks the end of both an extraordinary life and an important cultural and political era when poets did not simply write about political upheavals ...

NEW YORK — 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 literary ...

Amiri Baraka, the poet and playwright who was one of the central voices in the Black Power movement, died Thursday at age 79. Baraka, who once went by the moniker Leroi Jones, was also the Poet ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hettie Jones, an award-winning poet, publisher and children’s book author who was the first wife and early muse of the author-activist Amiri Baraka, has died at age 90. A statement ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Hettie Jones, an ...