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- NAME: Imamu Amiri Baraka
- OCCUPATION: Scholar, Critic, Academic Author, Author, Playwright, Poet
- BIRTH DATE: October 07, 1934 (Age: 78)
- EDUCATION: Howard University, Rutgers University, Columbia University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Newark, New Jersey
- Originally: Everett LeRoi Jones
- ZODIAC SIGN: Libra
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Imamu Amiri Baraka is an African-American poet and scholar. He has served as professor emeritus of Africana Studies at the State Unversity of New York at Stony Brook.
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Imamu Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) was born on October 7, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers and then Howard Universities and became a sergeant in the United States Air Force. After his writings led to a dishonorable discharge, Jones moved to Greenwich Village. He became involved in the Black Nationalist poetry and literature scenes and took the name Amiri Baraka after the assassination of Malcolm X. He has taught at several American universities.
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