He was once known as Leroy Jones, author of a play titled “The Toilet.”
Ras Baraka is the son of Amiri Baraka, formerly Leroy Jones. Rabble rouser. Amiri Baraka had a place at Springfield Avenue and MLK (formerly High Street), not far from where I went to college at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Right across from NJIT is Robeson Hall of the Rutgers Newark campus, with a bust of Paul Robeson, an opera singer who spent some time in the Soviet Union during Joe Stalin’s reign of terror. Yes, a hardcore commie.
I was born and raised in Newark, watched the city go down the toilet. Addonizio went to prison. Ken Gibson, an NCE alumnus, eventually was a disappointment. 5 consecutive Newark mayors were sent up the river. Will something emerge about Cory Booker to make him number 6?