Amiri Baraka : Breaking news

 The other day, one great person died. He was a writer. His name is Ameri Baraka. This article is obituary for him.

Amiri Baraka

   He was born Everett LeRoi Jones in New Jersey in 1934. His father worked as a postal supervisor and lift operator, and his mother was a social worker. 

  In 1954, he joined the US Air Force as a gunner. He reached the rank of sergeant. But after an anonymous letter to his commanding officer accusing him ob being communist led to the discovery of Soviet writings, he was put on an unimportant post and given a discharge. he left US Air Force and He came into contact with Beat Generation, Black Mountain poets and New York School poets. 

  In 1958,  he founded Totem Press, which published  Beat icons. His this work was very favorable. He also worked as editor and critic.

  In 1961, a first book of poems, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, was published. He stated in his article in1962 that the Negro was entirely misunderstood by Americans as an element of American culture. As long as the black writer was obsessed with being an accepted, middle class, Baraka wrote, he would never be able to speak his mind, and that would always lead to failure. In 1967, he adopted the Muslim name Amear Baraka, later changed to Amiri Baraka. 

 His Black Art Movement lasted till 1974. He distanced himself from Black nationalism and became a Marxist.

　His radical work attracted support to many people. Of him pray its soul may rest in peace.