Amiri Baraka was African American ... They both spent time at Rutgers University, and in the U.S. military. For both, the city of Newark was central. For Roth, it's the Newark of the past ...

For anyone without the benefit of an African American studies degree or having spent time in Newark, NJ, the name Amiri Baraka (1934–2014) may be unfamiliar. Too bad. When thinking about 20th ...