Johari Amini (born 1935) is an African American poet, author, and chiropractor. Amini was born Jewel Lattimore in Philadelphia in 1935."Amini-Hudson, Johari (1935–)." '' Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages'', edited by Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer, vol. 1, Yorkin Publications, 2007, p. 50. ''Gale eBooks''. Accessed 16 Sept. 2021. She cofounded the

Third World Press Third World Press (TWP) is the largest independent black-owned press in the United States, founded in 1967 by Haki R. Madhubuti (then known as Don L. Lee), with early support from Johari Amini and Carolyn Rodgers. Since the 1960s, the company ha ...

in 1967 and was a staff member of the Institute of Positive Education. She also contributed to other Black Arts Movement institutions such as the Writers Workshop of the

Organization of Black American Culture The Organization of Black American Culture (OBA-C) (pronounced ''Oh-bah-see'') was conceived during the era of the Civil Rights Movement by Hoyt W. Fuller as a collective of African-American writers, artists, historians, educators, intellectuals, ...

(OBAC), its publication NOMMO, the Kuumba Theater, and the Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Workshop. She co-founded and edited ''Black Books Bulletin''. She has written many poems and short stories published in journals such as Black World. She was also a practicing chiropractor. She wrote a book titled ''A Commonsense Approach to Eating'' (1975) that merged her two career paths.

Selected works

* ''Images in Black'' (1967) * ''Black Essence'' (1968) * ''A Folk Fable'' (1969) * ''Let's Go Somewhere'' (1970) * ''A Hip Tale in Death Style'' (1970) * ''A Commonsense Approach to Eating'' (1975).

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American women editors Living people American chiropractors American women short story writers African-American women writers American women poets 1935 births 20th-century African-American women {{US-editor-stub