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An Evening with Amiri Baraka

Admission is free. Reservations required. to RSVP, click on the links below beginning Monday, October 24, at 9 a.m.

USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=189

General Public: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=189

Reception to follow.

In ways more forceful than its literary predecessors, the Black Arts Movement, as the aesthetic counterpart to the Black Power Movement, championed a Black Nationalist agenda, challenged Eurocentrism in U.S. literature, reminded us that “Black Is Beautiful” and uplifted the work of many writers who would illustrate the political potential of the arts. Join us as Black Arts Movement founder, poet and political activist Amiri Baraka, one of the most controversial and productive writers of the twentieth century, presents an evening of poetry, performance and conversation about his life and his life’s work. An extremely accomplished writer, Baraka is a professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has won numerous awards, including an Obie for Dutchman, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Langston Hughes Award from the City College of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, the James Weldon Johnson Medal for contributions to the arts and the Before Columbus Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.

Organized by Javon Johnson (American Studies and Ethnicity).

Photo: Frank Stewart

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Grand Ballroom

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski