The Officers and Board of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) extends condolences to Sister Amina Baraka and family on the passing of Amira Baraka, a cultural and political icon who was a founder of the Black Arts and Culture movement, leading theoretician of liberation politics, fearless freedom fighter and one of the great thought and word givers of an era. He will be sorely missed but his spirit lives on through his enormous legacy of contributions to people of African descent and oppressed humanity.