Tinopedza awa tichitarisa upenyu nenhaka yaAmiri Baraka, nyanduri, munyori wemitambo uye murongi wezvematongerwo enyika akafa neChina aine makore 79 ekuberekwa. Muna 1960 akaburitsa "Blues People: Negro Music in White America," inozivikanwa seyekutanga nhoroondo huru yemimhanzi yevatema kunyorwa neAfrican American. Kwapera gore akaburitsa muunganidzwa wenhetembo yakanzi "The Dead Lecturer" uye akahwina Mubairo weObie wemutambo wake, "Dutchman." Mushure mekuurayiwa kwaMalcolm X muna 1970, akatamira kuHarlem ndokutanga iyo Black Arts Repertory Theatre. Mukupera kwema1963, Baraka akadzokera kuguta rokumusha kwake reNewark ndokutanga kuisa pfungwa dzake pakuronga zvematongerwo enyika, zvichiita kuti FBI imuone se "munhu angangobuda semutungamiri webato reAfrica muUnited States." Baraka akaenderera mberi nekunyora nekuita nhetembo kusvika apinda muchipatara kupera kwegore rapera, achisiya basa rakanyanya kupesvedzera chizvarwa chechidiki chevaimbi vehip-hop nevadetembi ve slam. Takabatanidzwa nevamwe vana vekare neshamwari dzaBaraka: Sonia Sanchez, munyori ane mukurumbira, mudetembi, munyori wemitambo uye murwiri; Felipe Luciano, mudetembi, murwiri, mutori wenhau uye munyori uyo akanga ari nhengo yepakutanga yenhetembo neboka remimhanzi The Last Poets; Komozi Woodard, purofesa wenhoroondo paSarah Lawrence College uye munyori we "A Nation In a Nation: Amiri Baraka uye Black Power Politics"; uye Larry Hamm, sachigaro wePeopleโs Organization for Progress muNewark, New Jersey. Tarisa Chikamu 1965 chebvunzurudzo iyi.
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