by Amiri Baraka
An Agony.
And that thing
Amiri Baraka was a dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer.
With the rise of the civil rights movement Baraka’s works took on a more militant tone.
After Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was killed in 1965, Baraka moved to Harlem and founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School.
The Black Arts Movement helped develop a new aesthetic for black art and Baraka was its primary theorist.
