Obituary ：Amiri Baraka

　　　

　　　　Amiri Baraka was African- American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. His famous books about jazz is “Blue people” He died on January 9, 2014 and he was 78. He died of diabetes. He had struggled with it for a long time.

　　　　He born at Newark in America, where the town is called “ The Brick City” and in 1934. His first name is LeRoi Jones . In school days, he learned philosophy and religion. After that , in 1954, he joined the US Air Force as a gunner, but he quit it.  Because, he agreed with communism. A merica oppose it, so he made the US Air Force quit. He moved to Greenwich Village, where he began to interest in jazz. In 1962 he published “ The Myth of a Negro Literature”. He insisted that the Negro was misunderstood by Americans. At this time, in America, black people were discriminated. He prompted black people not to be discriminated. In 1963, he make Blue People: Negro Music in White America.  He began to conduct the free jazz movement and received an Obie Award. He wrote numerous books and taught many university. He is regarded as one of the most influential African- America writer of the 20^th century.