... the Newark riots. As many other activists of Black nationalism he approved of violence as an appropriate means to fight the white power structure." In his famous poem "Black Art,"" he writes about the need of "poems that kill"" and "wrestle cops into alleys and take their weapons leaving them dead". Obviously, during this time he was extremely radical in his opinion ... his reputation, Amiri Baraka is undeniably one of the strongest voices of the Black Power movement. Another very influential poet was Gil Scott-Heron. In one of his most known poems he offers criticism on the white domin...

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