Amiri Baraka

In his essay "Black is a Country," Amiri Baraka makes many key points. He points out how nationalism turns into a "dirty" word when it's embraced by populations that have suffered and died due to...

The Black Arts Movement is a literary and cultural movement that seeks to express the experiences of black people from their own point of view, in their own words, and with their own distinctive...

The tone of Amiri Baraka's poem, "Somebody Blew Up America," is characteristically angry and aggressive. The poem is a long stream of hectoring, anaphoric, rhetorical questions asking who committed...

The tone in Amiri Baraka's poem "When We'll Worship Jesus," is angry and defiant. The revolutionary political message is very clear from the outset. We’ll worship jesus When jesus do Somethin When...