Ahead of this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, VF editors discuss the president’s increasingly ...

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

For Evie Shockley, a Pulitzer Prize finalist who was first a fellow ... and how she missed the days when Amiri Baraka would call her to read a poem in the middle of the night.” ...

Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and the Music that Developed From It by Amiri Baraka Carson, Clayborne, Garrow, David J., Gill, Gerald, Harding, Vincent, and Hine, Darlene Clark.

and Amiri Baraka (previously known as Leroi Jones) as well as bold reimaginings of classics. Before being gutted in 2002 to make way for a health club, the venue at Broadway and Belmont provided a ...

Amiri Baraka, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Walter Mosley, Stephen Graham Jones, Joel Crawford, Wes Craven, and many others.” As much of the movie’s press ...

Basir was recently in Austin at the SXSW Film Festival to premiere the next feature which he co-wrote, The Dutchman, from director Andre Gaines and also written by Gaines, and Amiri Baraka.

You are an accomplished jazz musician. During your recent interview with Marc Maron, you were talking about Amiri Baraka aka Leroi Jones. I had to stop and rewind the conversation. I said aloud ...

“I’ve had a lot of experience with words,” he said, “because I’ve worked in the past with the great Amiri Baraka, with Ishmael Reed, with Ntozake Shange, and I’ve worked in theater as ...