Literary icon Amiri Baraka talks at Charles H. Wright
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Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Nov. 16, 7 p.m.
Born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934, Amiri Baraka is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism. He is a poet icon and political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the United States, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe.
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