Activist-poet Baraka dies; appeared at Millican Festival
BY HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
Posted 1/15/14
NEW YORK - Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, died Jan. 9 at 79.
In 2010, Baraka …
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