Biography.

Amiri Baraka is an African American who was born LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. He is known as being a writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays And music criticism  He attended Rutgers University and Howard University, spent three years in the U.S. Air Force, and returned to New York City to attend Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. He tought at multiple colleges in the language arts department.