Amiri Baraka Dies With Diabetes,At Age 79

Newark, New Jersey : Amiri Baraka,an African American poet and playwright of pulsating rage, who was a primary intellectual architect of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s, died on Jan. 9,2014 at Beth Israel Medical Center hospital in Newark. He was 79.It is mentioned that Baraka had a long struggle with diabetes for 1 month prior to his death in I.C.U.

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Name              : Amiri Baraka

Age                 : 79 (Oct.7,1934 - Jan. 9, 2014)

Family            : Kellie Jones, Lisa Jones, 
                         Dominque DiPrima, 
                         Maria Jones, 
                         Shani Baraka, 
                         Obalaji Baraka, 
                         Ras Baraka, 
                         Ahi Baraka, 
                         Amiri Baraka

Pen Name       : LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka

Achievement  : 2nd Poet Laureate of New Jersey( Jul,2002- Jul.2, 2003)
                         Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation &
                         the National Endowment for the Arts,
                         Langston Hughes Award from the City College of New York,
                         Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama,
                         An induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
                         Before Columbus Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
                       

 Amiri Baraka's poetry was used by artist Larry Kirkland in New York City's Pennsylvania Station.

"I have seen many suns 

use 

the endless succession of hours 

piled upon each other "

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