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‘Express Newark’ Celebrates Poet Amiri Baraka

Express Newark is hosting a multi-media exhibition in honor of Poet-Educator-Activist-Producer-Actor-Orator Amiri Baraka [1934-2014] downtown Newark at 54 Halsey Street through July 19. The event keys in on Baraka’s groundbreaking 1963 book ‘Blues People: Negro Music in White America,’ written when he was still known by his “slave name,” as he used to say, LeRoi Jones.

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