Baraka, Amiri

Amiri Baraka
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Amiri Baraka

Name	Baraka, Amiri Gender: M
Birthname	Everett LeRoi Jones
born on	7 October 1934 at 05:15 (= 05:15 AM )
Place	Newark, New Jersey, 40n44, 74w10
Timezone	EST h5w (is standard time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: Gauquelin
Astrology data	13°27' 29°26 Asc. 03°56'

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Biography

American playright and Separatist Black leader, he was born to a social worker mom and a postal worker dad.

He attended Rutgers University but left without graduation. He changed his name to LeRoi Jones in 1952. Two years later, in 1954 he enlisted in the Army but was dishonorably discharged after getting into an altercation with a superior officer. He moved to Greenwich Village where he became involved with jazz musicians and writers; in 1958 he founded Totem Press which published some of the Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac. That year he married Hettie Cohen. The couple jointly edited Yugen literary magazine until 1963. A trip to Cuba evoked the activist in him and he began writing controversial political and social commentary and plays. In 1967 he adopted the African name Imamu Ameer Baraka, which he later changed to Amiri Baraka. At around this time he divorced Hetty and left her and their two children. In 1966 he remarried, this time to a woman who took the name of Amina Baraka. A year later he began teaching. With his controversial anti-Semitic views which he later denounced, he was active in the Black Muslim movement, embracing Islam and calling for an end to the oppression of Black people. He continued writing and in 1989 won an American Book Award and a Langston Hughes Award. He has also appeared in several films.

His 31-year-old daughter was murdered in 2003 in New Jersey.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• friend relationship with Ginsberg, Allen (born 3 June 1926)

• friend relationship with Kerouac, Jack (born 12 March 1922)

Events

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1958 (established Totem Press)

• Death of Child 2003

Source Notes

Gauquelin Book of American Charts

Categories

• Traits : Body : Race (African-American)

• Family : Parenting : Kids -Traumatic event

• Vocation : Politics : Activist/ political

• Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social

• Vocation : Writers : Magazine/ newsletter

• Vocation : Writers : Playwright/ script

• Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor