COLUMBIA — Decades before Amiri Baraka was ousted as poet laureate of New Jersey, he was LeRoi Jones, founder of the Black Arts movement, a 1960s revolution in African-American culture.
Poet Baraka to speak at MU
Monday, September 24, 2007 | 6:09 p.m. CDT;
updated 4:24 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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