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...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...
...bitter denunciations of white civilization as decadent and evil, LeRoi Jones cannot quite flush it from his system. It is as much a part of this 36-year-old black writer as having been the son of a Newark, N.J., postal worker, a graduate of Howard University, an East Village intellectual with a Tyrolean hat and a white wife, and a gifted poet-playwright who was cheered until white liberals decided that white guilt was a form of masochism...
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...