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2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

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Amiri Baraka was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.

Baraka's career spanned nearly 50 years. Some poems that are always associated with him are "The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues", "The Book of Monk", and "New Music, New Poetry", works that draw on topics from the worlds of society, music, and literature. Baraka's poetry and writing have attracted both high praise and condemnation. Some compare Baraka to James Baldwin and recognize him as one of the most respected and most widely published black writers of his generation.

Baraka received honors from a number of prestigious foundations, including the following: fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Langston Hughes Award from the City College of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, an induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Before Columbus Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.

Biography and bibliography in &quot;Contemporary Authors,&quot; New Revision
Series, Vol. 133, pp. 54-64. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale,
2005.

Father of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1989922/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Ras Baraka</a>.

Named Poet Laureate of the State of New Jersey (USA). (2002)

Father of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0428677/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Lisa Jones</a>.

Father of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1045184/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Dominique DiPrima</a> with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0224227/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Diane Di Prima</a>.

He is nominated for the 2023 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts &amp; Letters category.

He was nominated for the 2025 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.

Parents are: Coyt Leroy Jones, and Anna Lois Russ.

Survived by his wife, Amina, his son, Ras, three other sons, Obalaji, Amiri Baraka, Jr, Ahi, four daughters, Dominique DiPrima, Lisa Jones Brown, Kellie Jones, and Marie Jones, several grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, his daughter, Shani predeceased.

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