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Self-Determination and Democracy

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  • ABOUT Amiri Baraka

    Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism. Baraka is a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe.

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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.       

Click play to listen. Recorded on November 9, 2002.

The renowned poet, dramatist, essayist, and activist recalls his involvement with the Black Art Movement in the 1960s, when he formed the Black Arts Repertory Theatre in Harlem and promoted black culture and identity in his writing on blues and jazz.

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