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

Chicago had Carl Sandburg. Paterson had William Carlos Williams. And Newark was lucky enough to have two: Amiri Baraka and Philip Roth. Hard to imagine two writers more different. Or, possibly ...

A newly restored film adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s provocative 1964 play evoking ... writhe into the seat next to the uptight Clay (Al Freeman Jr.). Toward the end of the film, Harvey adds ...

In The Dutchman, Andre Gaines retrofits Amiri Baraka’s caustic play about a fatal ... Here, Clay, played by Al Freeman Jr., is a fool too easily lured by Lula’s unhinged seduction, all but ...