Poet Amiri Baraka

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Amiri Baraka

Living place: Newark

Birthday: 7-10-1934 (90 years old)

Population of US 1934: 126,373,773

Global rank: #50500

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Who is Poet Amiri Baraka?
African-American poet, critic, and playwright known for works such as The People's Blues: Negro Music in White America (fiction), Dante Hell's System (novel), A Black Mass (drama) ), and Slave Ship (poetry). He was the New Jersey Prize-winning poet from 2002 to 2003.
His 2006 fiction work, Tales of the Out and Gone, received the PEN Open Book Award in 2008.

Young / Before famous

He attended Rutgers University and Columbia University. He published his first poetic work, the preface to a Twenty Amounts Suicide Note, in 1961.

Family life info

He had two daughters with writer Hettie Cohen. With his second wife, Amina Baraka (born Sylvia Robinson), he had seven more children.

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He appeared in Bulworth, a 1998 film that starred Warren Beatty as Senator Jay Billington Bulworth.

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When was Poet Amiri Baraka born?
Amiri Baraka birthday 7-10-1934 (at the age of 90).
Where is Poet Amiri Baraka's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Amiri Baraka was born in Newark, New Jersey- United States. Là Poet, whose Zodiac is Libra, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dog. Amiri Baraka's global rank is 50500 and whose rank is 202 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1934 is about 126,373,773 persons.
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Events in 1934 and 7-10

Events in US in the birth year of Amiri Baraka

  • Securities Exchange Act is passed, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • Federal Communications Commission is established to regulate communications.
  • Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker ambushed by lawmen in Louisiana. John Dillinger is shot outside Chicago movie theater.
  • Dust storms ruin about 100 million acres and damage another 200 million acres of cropland in Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma ("Dust Bowl").

Birthday Amiri Baraka (7-10) in history

  • Day 7-10 year 1765: The Stamp Act Congress was convened in New York to address the grievances of the North American people against England.
  • Day 7-10 year 1849: Poet-writer Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40.
  • Day 7-10 year 1949: The Republic of East Germany was formed.
  • Day 7-10 year 1968: The Motion Picture Association of America adopted its film-rating system, ranging from "G" for general audiences to "X" for adults only.
  • Day 7-10 year 1985: The Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen in the Mediterranean.
  • Day 7-10 year 1998: Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, robbed, and left tied to a fence. He died five days later.
  • Day 7-10 year 2001: U.S. and British forces launched bombing campaign against Taliban government and al-Qaeda terrorist camps in Afghanistan.
  • Day 7-10 year 2003: California governor Gray Davis was recalled and former bodybuilder and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected in his place.
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