Amiri Baraka – Thursday, February 11, Free. 7 pm. Rothko Chapel, 1409 Sul Ross. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information, visit www.rothkochapel.org or call 713-524-9839.
Poet, playwright and civil rights activist Amiri Baraka will be at the Rothko Chapel for a program. Amiri Baraka is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism. The Essence of Reparations is Baraka’s first published collection of essays in book form exploring the interrelated issues of racism, national oppression, colonialism, neo-colonialism, self-determination and national and human liberation. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.