Saturday, January 18, 2014

Funeral held for activist poet-writer Amiri Baraka

Poet Sonia Sanchez reads a poem during the funeral of poet Amiri Baraka Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014, in Newark, N.J. The 79-year-old author of blues-based poems, plays and criticism died Jan. 9 of an undisclosed illness. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A cacophony of bagpipes, African drums and jazz riffs creatively blended— much like the elements of an Amiri Baraka poem — at the Saturday funeral for the activist-writer and a founder of the Black Arts Movement, who died earlier this month.








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