**FILE** Poet and social activist Amiri Baraka speaks March 12, 1972, during the Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind. Baraka, a Beat poet, black nationalist and Marxist revolutionary known for his blues-based, fist-shaking manifestos, died Jan. 9, 2014, at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, N.J. at age 79. (Associated Press)
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