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American, born 1942
In 1974, Baraka adopted a Marxist Leninist philosophy and dropped the spiritual title “Imamu.” In 1983, he and Amina Baraka edited Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women, which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and, in 1987, they published The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues.
En 1967 cambió su nombre por el de Imamu Amear Baraka, cambiado más tarde por el de Amiri Baraka. Ese mismo año se casa con la poeta afrodescendiente Sylvia Robinson (Amina Baraka), con la que tuvo cinco hijos. Fue líder de la organización musulmana Kawaida hasta que esta pasó a ser marxista, en los años 1960.
Amina Baraka es poeta, performer, cantante, actriz, autora, organizadora comunitaria, bailarina y activista estadounidense. Nacida en Newark, New Jersey, USA. Su nombre es Silvia Robinson. Su poesía está impregnada de una amorosa atmósfera, en la que emerge la persistente denuncia de las matanzas y violaciones de los derechos civiles de la población negra norteamericana.
Poet, singer, actor, and activist Amina Baraka (1942– ), also once known as Bibi Amina Baraka, was born Sylvia Robinson in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was raised in Newark, New Jersey, where she has managed the Women’s Division of the Community for a Unified NewArk and organized women’s conferences for the Congress of Afrikan People and for the Revolutionary Communist
Amina Baraka Undated photograph of Amina and Amiri Baraka. (AAIHS) Amina Baraka was born Sylvia Robinson in Newark, NJ. Her mother and grandfather were two of the first African American union organizers in Newark in the 1940s and the apartment where they lived was a regular gathering place for people in the neighborhood. Her grandmother […]
2 de abr. de 2014 · Baraka died on January 9, 2014 in Newark, New Jersey at the age of 79. He is survived by his wife, Amina Baraka, two daughters from his first marriage and four children from his second.
