Word: baraka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more law-and-order in the ghetto; separatists anxious to set aside part of the South as a new black nation and integrationists pushing for open housing and busing. The result was a platform with more than 70 separate items, cajoled and gaveled past the delegates by Imamu Amiri Baraka, the Newark black nationalist leader and poet once known as LeRoi Jones. Among the major points on the partly sensible, largely Utopian agenda...
...Baptism and Rats. "The Baptism" by Ameer Baraka (LeRoi Jones) joins Israel Horovitz's "Rats." Northeastern Studio Theater...
...meetings have been quiet, some of them almost secret. The participants have included virtually every important black leader in the U.S., among them Julian Bond, Carl Stokes, Charles Evers, Jesse Jackson, Poet Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and the 13 members of the black caucus in Congress. The purpose: to develop a black political strategy for 1972, especially in order to influence the selection of a Democratic presidential nominee. But after more than half a dozen meetings-most recently a full-scale conference of black elected officials held in Washington -that strategy is still to be defined...
RAISE RACE RAYS RAZE: ESSAYS SINCE 1965 by Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones). 169 pages. Random House...
...ambivalent past can be a source of strength and creative energy. Today Jones-also known as Imamu Amiri Baraka-has a black wife and is the leader of Spirit House, an African culture center in Newark. But the past can also cause awkward ironies. Why, for example, should Jones, as dedicated as he is to the unique genius of African cultures, be so dependent on the white man's academic jargon and propaganda techniques? Their dead weight has a consistently bad effect on the otherwise vital and aggressive street style of many of the essays and manifestoes contained...