Rattling the Bars puts the voices of the people most harmed by our system of mass incarceration at the center of our reporting on the fight to end it. The show was founded by the late Black Panther ...

The obits for Amiri Baraka are coming thick and fast—at The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. Many of the obits mention his poetry, but ...

Most Dangerous Man in America (W.E.B. Du Bois), Amiri Baraka’s last play, revisits a schizophrenic 1950s moment when the internationalism of African-American intellectuals clashed with McCarthyism’s ...

He doesn’t support Steve Lonegan, GOP challenger to Booker in the Oct. 16 th general election. But Baraka, Newark’s South Ward councilman and one of the leading candidates for mayor in the 2014 ...

Lost in the political obscurity of Chris Christie and “Traffic-Gate” was the passing of one of our great literary, political, and cultural figures — Amiri Baraka. Yesterday, Newark New Jersey lost a ...

NEWARK — The murmur of WBGO and the whispers from a steady stream of visitors were the only sounds in the South Ward living room. Walls were covered in paintings, photographs and lithographs. Jazz ...

Since the early days of Donald Trump’s political rise, mental health experts have argued over the ethics of diagnosing the once-and-wannabe-again POTUS from a distance. There is one stark precedent, ...