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	{{Infobox person\|name=Amiri Baraka\|~~birthname~~=Everett Leroy Jones\|nationality=New Afrikan\|death_date=January 9, 2014\|death_place=Newark, New Jersey, United States\|birth_date=October 7, 1934\|birth_place=Newark, [[New Jersey]], [[United States of America\|United States]]\|image=Amiri Baraka.png\|image_size=200}}		{{Infobox person\|name=Amiri Baraka\|birth_name=Everett Leroy Jones\|nationality=New Afrikan\|death_date=January 9, 2014\|death_place=Newark, New Jersey, United States\|birth_date=October 7, 1934\|birth_place=Newark, [[New Jersey]], [[United States of America\|United States]]\|image=Amiri Baraka.png\|image_size=200}}

	'''Amiri Baraka''' (October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014) was a Statesian poet, playwright, and political activist. He participated in the [[Civil rights movement\|civil rights]] and [[Black power movement\|Black power]] movements.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=David Hungerford\|newspaper=[[Fight Back! News]]\|title=Reflections on Amiri Baraka\|date=2014-01-12\|url=https://www.fightbacknews.org/2014/1/12/reflections-amiri-baraka\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229033711/https://www.fightbacknews.org/2014/1/12/reflections-amiri-baraka\|archive-date=2022-12-29\|retrieved=2023-02-04}}</ref>		'''Amiri Baraka''' (October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014) was a Statesian poet, playwright, and political activist. He participated in the [[Civil rights movement\|civil rights]] and [[Black power movement\|Black power]] movements.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=David Hungerford\|newspaper=[[Fight Back! News]]\|title=Reflections on Amiri Baraka\|date=2014-01-12\|url=https://www.fightbacknews.org/2014/1/12/reflections-amiri-baraka\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229033711/https://www.fightbacknews.org/2014/1/12/reflections-amiri-baraka\|archive-date=2022-12-29\|retrieved=2023-02-04}}</ref>

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{{Infobox person|name=Amiri Baraka|birthname=Everett Leroy Jones|nationality=New Afrikan|death_date=January 9, 2014|death_place=Newark, New Jersey, United States|birth_date=October 7, 1934|birth_place=Newark, [[New Jersey]], [[United States of America|United States]]|image=Amiri Baraka.png|image_size=200}}

'''Amiri Baraka''' (October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014) was a Statesian poet, playwright, and political activist. He participated in the [[Civil rights movement|civil rights]] and [[Black power movement|Black power]] movements.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=David Hungerford|newspaper=[[Fight Back! News]]|title=Reflections on Amiri Baraka|date=2014-01-12|url=https://www.fightbacknews.org/2014/1/12/reflections-amiri-baraka|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229033711/https://www.fightbacknews.org/2014/1/12/reflections-amiri-baraka|archive-date=2022-12-29|retrieved=2023-02-04}}</ref>

== Political career ==
Baraka participated in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and was an early leader of the black power movement. He helped organize the 1967 Newark Black Power Conference that created a political and economic agenda for Black people in the USA and founded the [[Congress of African People]]. He also helped organize the 1972 National Black Political Convention which attempted to create a nationwide Black political party. The congress adopted a resolution of support for [[State of Palestine|Palestine]] and led Baraka to abandon [[electoralism]].

Baraka became a [[Communism|communist]] by 1974 and founded the [[Revolutionary Communist League]], which followed [[Mao Zedong Thought|MZT]]. He continued to support [[self-determination]] for the Black nation. The RCL merged with the [[League of Revolutionary Struggle]] in 1980. He left the LRC in the late 1980s when it became solely dedicated to [[Jesse Jackson]]'s presidential campaign.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
[[Category:Statesian communists]]

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