Word: amiri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...names with an African or Islamic flavor, persists. Malcolm Little became Malcolm X and then Malik al-Shabazz. Cassius Clay transformed himself into Muhammad Ali. Lew Alcindor became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture. The writer LeRoi Jones converted to Amiri Baraka...
...challenge authority. To change the world. To announce itself: Power to the imagination! Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre declared the upheaval "the extension of the limits of the possible." At Columbia University, Mark Rudd, a scion of Corporate America, borrrowed an epigram from the street poet LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka): "Up against the wall, motherf*****, this is a stickup...
Sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department and Roxbury Community College, the conference will address the effect 1960s Black writers have had on contemporary poets and feature poets such as Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka...
Author and activist Amiri Baraka and exiled South African lawyer Bojana Jordan joined Isaac at a "teach-in" at the Longfellow School of Education. The informal event was part of a ten-day celebration of the Education for Action (E4A) Committee's 20th anniversary...
...that a question to which minorities reply automatically, "As much mine as yours." No one really believes that, there being too much painful evidence to the contrary. Still, many members of minorities wholeheartedly enjoy then" status because it gives them a useful relationship to the mainstream. Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) remarked that a black writer has an advantage because, being black, he has been forced to live in an isolated room in the nation's house, thus when he emerges from that room into the rest of the house, he knows the entire structure...