Breaking News:Amiri Baraka was died

Yesterday, the great person Amiri Baraka was died at 79. He was well known person that African – American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essay and music criticism. He wrote 11 famous poetries during life time and he taught at a number of universities. After that, his achievement was accepted and he received the PEN Open Book Award.

He was born in Newark, New Jersey on October 7, 1934. He left the Howard University without obtaining a degree. In 1958, he married and he founded Totem Press which was literary magazine and he wrote the first poetry “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” in 1961. Amiri Baraka criticized the opinion of the black of middle class people and black of the side of white afterwards. Because, their opinions have deception and hypocrisy and those opinions do not contribute to realize society that black is not suppressed. So, he criticized those black using various way, for example poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction, essay, and music criticism. After he got old, he supported the people who inherits the exercise that he did. In presidential election, he supported Barack Obama recently. 

He left those grand achievements, but in Beth Israel Medical center of Newark(New Jersey), Amiri Baraka died on January 9, 2014. The cause of death was not reported.