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...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...
Closing the Journal's issue are A.R.'s reviews of African writer Avi Kwei Armah's second novel, Fragments, the poetry of Imamu Amiri Baraka's (Leroi Jones) poetry, and Amistad 1, a new journal edited by John A. Williams and Charles F. Harris. Provocative briefs on three crucial elements of contemporary black literature, marked by their intellectual toughness and conciseness, the reviews are another example of "the compassionate yet critical reflection" the Journal promises and provides...
...teachers struck for 16 days. An arbitrator granted their demands for a share of control over class sizes, curriculums and assignments to such nonteaching duties as patrolling halls and lunchrooms. Future disputes were to be hammered out in binding arbitration. But militant, separatist blacks, led by Writer Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), immediately suspected that the union would use its power to block reforms and frustrate "community control...