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Vote: | This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. |
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Vote: | This trashy propaganda is characteristic of right-wing zealots who are interested only in slander and character assassination of those whose views or philosophies differ from or are in contradiction to theirs. |
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Amiri Baraka (born October 7, 1934) is a U.S. writer, probably best known as a playwright and poet.
Born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey to a postman and lift operator, Amiri Baraka has undergone many changes in his life and professional career as a writer and poet.
Early Life and Career Jones studied philosophy and religion at Rutgers, Columbia, and Howard Universities, though he earned no degree. Jones then joined the US Air Force for three years. An anonymous letter to his commanding officer accusing him of being a communist led to the discovery of Soviet agitprop, Baraka was put on gardening duty and given a dishonorable discharge for violation of his oath of duty.
Baraka came to New York's Greenwich Village from the Air Force in 1957 and rented a tenement on East Third Street. Baraka found a job in a record warehouse, which fueled his interest in black music, and brought him into contact with writers such as Nat Hentoff, Martin Williams and Allen Ginsberg. The influences these individuals had on Baraka's early career is reflected in his Beat-era poetry, and can be seen in his Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note poetry collection.
In 1958, Jones founded Totem Press, which published such Beat icons as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
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