Word: baraka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scott also denounced writer and politician Imanu Baraka (Leroi Jones), as an agent for the CIA in its attempts to yoke ghetto youths with "slave labor" jobs...
...School, served in the air force as a legal officer, and set up his own practice in Newark. There he met Hayden and was introduced into radical law when he took the case of John Butenko, an engineer who was charged with espionage. Since then, Weinglass has represented Imamu Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson...
...first Congress of African Peoples in Atlanta, Amina Baraka led a workshop which dealt with questions of family structure and nationhood...
...develop largely under the impetus of William A. Stewart's 1964 pamphlet Non-Standard Speech and the Teaching of English. This analysis has been fueled by the renaissance of black cultural pride that began to take place in the mid-1960's. The proponents of this school--Imamu Baraka, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks--maintain that Black English is a well-structured dialect that is a derivation but not a corruption of Standard English. J.L. Dillard's Black English is the first attempt to take a systematic linguistic historical look at the subject and as such offers several important insights...
Reed himself keeps prancing on his drum, preaching the glories of HooDoo culture. It is a welcome alternative to the bludgeoning lectures of LeRoi (Imamu Baraka) Jones. Or is it? The club is a quicker and more merciful weapon than the feather. -R.Z. Sheppard