Amina Baraka

Poet, singer, actor, and activist Amina Baraka (formerly Sylvia Robinson) and wife of Amiri Baraka, she was born Charlotte, North Carolina, and raised in Newark, New Jersey. Some of her published works include a poetry collection "Blues in All Hues" (2014), has been featured in the anthologies such as "Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry" (1994) and "Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam" (2001). With her late husband Amiri Baraka, she coedited "Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women" (1983), "The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues" (1987), and "5 Boptrees" (1992). She also appeared onscreen in the films "Strange Fruit" (2002, directed by Joel Katz), "The Pact" (2006, directed by Andrea Kalin), and Keep It Clean (2007, directed by Jeanette Mühlmann) and onstage in Amiri Baraka’s plays Black Mass, Slave Ship, Mad Heart, and Home on the Range.