Hettie Jones, publisher, educator and award-winning poet and former wife of Amiri Baraka, dies at 90

Hettie Jones, publisher, educator and award-winning poet and former wife of Amiri Baraka, dies at 90

NEW YORK — Hettie Jones, an award-winning author, publisher and educator who was the first wife and early muse of the author-poet-activist Amiri Baraka and one of the few women in the Beat literary community, has died at age 90. Jones died Tuesday, according to a statement released by her family. Additional details were not … Read more