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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...
...labeled Baraka "a poverty pimp. The black kid who looks up to Superfly, the white who feels guilty at his comfort, you petty bourgois black students who came to a bullshit place like this [Harvard]--you created Leroi Jones," he said
...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...
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
...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...