Airwaves: Amiri Baraka: poet, provocateur

... discharged. Ironically, he would become a Marxist/Communist, much later in life. He moved to moved to Greenwich Village and fell in with the Beat writers, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He married the poet Hettie Cohen -- a white woman ...

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