Amiri Baraka: Meetings and Remarkable Journeys – Symposium & Exhibition (Sept. 16–18, 2015)
Panel 1: Amiri Baraka: First Fires, and the Black Arts Movement in the South
Panelists: Sonia Sanchez; John Bracey, Jr., James Smethurst (Moderator: Joseph Jordan)
Panel 2: The Black Nationalist Ethic and Black Internationalism
Panelists: Komozi Woodard; Michael Simanga; Alex Carter (Moderator: Kenneth Janken)
Panel 3: Is Black Dada Nihilismus on Your Reading List?: Baraka, Controversy and the Cultural Politics of the Movement(s)
Panelists: Mae Henderson; Woodie King, Jr., E. Ethelbert Miller (Moderator: Michael Simanga)
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (?) Blues People at 60
Session Moderator - Prof. Renee Alexander-Craft, Assoc. Prof., UNC at Chapel Hill
Session 4 of the Amiri Baraka Symposium with Mark Anthony Neal, cultural critic, professor at Duke University, and author of numerous books and articles, including the New Black Man, and founder/producer of the Left of Black web series; and Amy Abugo Ongiri, Jill Beck Director of Film Studies and Associate Professor of Film Studies at Lawrence University and author of Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic
Amiri Baraka Symposium - Discussion on Dutchman with Woodie King, Jr. and Prof. Kathy Williams
Noted playwright/director Woodie King Jr. discusses Amiri Baraka's groundbreaking play, 'Dutchman' at the Stone Center's Symposium 'Amiri Baraka: Meetings and Remarkable Journeys, on 16 September 2015. Joining King is Professor Kathy Williams of UNC at Chapel Hill's Department of Dramatic Art