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His song "Rainbow Voice" is featured in the films "Blade: Trinity" (2004), "Blade" (1998), "Baraka" (1992), and "Dead Poets Society" (1989).
After seeing Amiri Baraka's play Dutchman, Bullins felt that Baraka's artistic purpose was similar to his own.
"Wipala", the first track on their debut album, serves as a backdrop to the "Brazil Favela" segment of Ron Fricke's 1992 film Baraka.
Noted for her dedication to women's equality, she was one of the principal writers (among them Ajamu Baraka, who won the United Nations Ambassador Kofi Annan award as a death penalty activist) of a paper entitled "A Call to End the Oppression of Women" published in Fertile Ground by Kalamu Ya Salaam and Keshia Brown (Renagade Press).
In the next years, Michael Stearns worked again with Ron Fricke, scoring Baraka, his best known composition and released several albums, working with Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny and/or Ron Sunsinger (1989 : Desert Solitaire, 1994 : Singing Stones and Kiva) or alone (1993 : Sacred Sites, 1995 : The Lost World).
While the former film emphasized family melodrama, the new film reduced these scenes to a string, concentrating on hallucinogenic international imagery in a manner looking forward to such films as Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka.
Baraka (1992) – an experimental documentary film directed by Ron Fricke, cinematographer on Koyaanisqatsi.
Baraka is a candidate in the 2014 Newark mayoral election in a field that includes Council Members Anibal Ramos, Jr. and Darrin S. Sharif and former Assistant State Attorney General Shavar Jeffries.
He also appeared in Mortal Kombat II as Baraka, and reprised the role of Kano for both Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat 3, the latter in which he also played the masked hook swordsman Kabal.
From Talented Tenth and Preaching With Sacred Fire, Sho Baraka delved into books such as The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, along with various works by authors such as Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, August Wilson, and C. S. Lewis.
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In another interview on the Wade-O Radio Show, Sho Baraka explained that his motivation for the album was frustration not just with Christian music but with Christendom and the issues that are ignored and not addressed.
The album featured various notable Christian artists, such as Sho Baraka (formerly signed with Reach Records), J.R., Lecrae, J.Paul, KB, Andy "C-Lite" Mineo, Jimmy Needham, V.Rose, Suzy Rock, Jai, and Leah Smith.