The service, held at Newark Symphony Hall, featured poetry, music and tributes to a man several speakers hailed as a creative and committed revolutionary who had a profound influence both on American ...

NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — A cacophony of bagpipes, African drums and jazz riffs creatively blended— much like the elements of an Amiri Baraka poem — at the Saturday funeral for the activist-writer and ...

The lines of mourners, some draped in somber funereal garb, others in colorful African prints, snaked for nearly a block down Broad Street in Newark on Saturday. Just beyond Newark Symphony Hall, a ...

This past Saturday the funeral of writer and revolutionary icon Amiri Baraka shut down a section of one of downtown Newark's main streets, dignitary style. Barricades. Mounted cops in formation.

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NEWARK — The funeral for Amiri Baraka, the famed Newark poet who died this week, will be held at Newark Symphony Hall on Saturday, Jan. 18, at 10 a.m., according to a family spokeswoman. Metropolitan ...

Bagpipers, African drummers and jazz musicians led a rousing procession as the casket bearing activist poet-playwright Amiri Baraka was carried into his funeral service at Newark Symphony Hall. The 79 ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A cacophony of bagpipes, African drums and jazz riffs creatively blended— much like the elements of an Amiri Baraka poem — at the Saturday funeral for the activist-writer and a ...

Bagpipers, African drummers and jazz musicians led a rousing procession as the casket bearing activist poet-playwright Amiri Baraka was carried into his funeral service. The 79-year-old author of ...