Writer-director Andre Gaines takes Amiri Baraka's 1964 play about the encounter between a reserved Black man and a roguish ...

The obits for Amiri Baraka are coming thick and ... who died of a heroin overdose in Rome, Baraka blames his “gutless” wife for his death and imagines burning not only her flesh but the ...

At first glance, it's the contrast between these two Newark-born authors, rather than the similarity, that stands out. Amiri Baraka was African American. Philip Roth was white — and Jewish.