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Amiri Baraka  

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  • Originally known as LeRoi Jones, the most vocal of the African American intellectuals and activists who came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s. The prolific author of poetry, plays, a novel, and numerous essays that promoted black solidarity, Jones adopted the Muslim name Amiri Baraka in 1967 when, as an advocate of the Black Nationalist movement, he urged new and more radical models of political organizing. [Source: Encyclopedia of African American Society; Baraka, Amiri (1934–)]

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