From Beat Poet to Black Power Prophet | Amiri Baraka

He went from a Greenwich Village Beat poet named LeRoi Jones to the architect of an entire movement. Amiri Baraka founded the Black Arts Movement, ignited Black Studies, and helped build Black Power from the streets of Newark to the national convention at Gary in 1972. Drawn from the source history — narrated, illustrated, and chaptered so you can follow Baraka's arc from Greenwich Village to a nation within a nation. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Amiri Baraka: From Black Arts to Black Radicalism 0:35 From Greenwich Village to Black Power 1:35 A Child of Jim Crow Newark 3:34 The Beat Years in Greenwich Village 4:29 Cuba, Malcolm, and the Birth of Black Arts 5:51 The Assassination of Malcolm X 9:14 The Black Aesthetic 12:11 NewArk: Rebellion and Cultural Nationalism 15:09 Kawaida and the Black Value System 17:13 The Modern Black Convention Movement 20:49 The Gary Declaration 24:34 African Liberation Day 27:41 The Voice of the Movement 31:08 The Revolutionary Communist League 34:46 A Nation Within a Nation 📚 In this video: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) · Sterling Brown at Howard · the assassination of Malcolm X · BARTS, the Black Arts Repertory Theatre · the 1967 Newark Rebellion · Kawaida and the Black value system · the Gary Convention of 1972 · the Congress of African People · the 6th Pan-African Congress · the Marxist turn. 🔔 Subscribe to Africa Good Life for more African and Black history, restored and retold. 💬 Which Baraka mattered most to you — the poet, the organizer, or the radical? Tell us below. #AmiriBaraka #BlackPower #BlackArtsMovement