Amiri Baraka’s Blues People| Discussion, Lecture, eBook

September 11, 2023October 13, 2024RBG Street Scholar 2 Comments

Amiri Baraka at the Five Spot in New York in 1963, the year he published “Blues People: Negro Music in White America.”Credit…Ben Martin/Getty Images
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From the description of the livestream discussion that follows : Writer, director, and actor David Shakes will lead Evolution Community Read, a virtual community conversation on Amiri Baraka’s Blues People: Negro Music in White America…continue below

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SUPPLEMENTAL: Amiri Baraka’s “Blues People” at Fifty, Professor Robert O’Meally speaks at this talk which marks the 50th anniversary of the influential volume’s publication.

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A ‘major disturbance’ broke out August 21 at San Quentin Prison after two convicts, one of them George Jackson (R), a Soledad Brother, tried to escape from their rock-walled enclosure. Jackson was killed in the escape attempt, the other prisoner gave up and was recaptured. The Soledad Brothers are three black convicts charged with slaying a guard at the Soledad State Prison in January 1970. They are (L-R): Fleeta Drumgo, 26; John W. Cluchette, 28; and Jackson, 29.