Description : Eyes 2 Transcript,  Amiri Baraka. Interview recorded on 03/31/1989, Newark NJ (Also known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amiri Baraka) TALKS ABOUT MALCOLM X AND HIS INFLUENCE, MLK and JFK, and Malcolm's Assasination  THE WHOLE AFRICAN LIBERATION STRUGGLE HAD INTENSIFIED AFTER WW2, BY THE 50'S YOU BEGAN TO HEAR ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE NKRUMAH & FOR US THE MOST  DRAMATIC WAS LUMUMBAH, I THINK 1961 WHEN THEY KILLED LUMUMBAH. HE WAS  THE PREMIER NATIONALIST  WE WERE INFLUENCED BY AFRICA & THE NATION OF ISLAM & AFRICAN CULTURAL  REVOLUTION, AND BLACK CONCIOUSNESS WAS GETTING EMPHASISED. AFTER I GOT ARRESTED IN 1967, IN THE NEWARK REBELLION & SENT TO JAIL. I MET THE BROTHER WHO SAID THE PRAYER OVER MALCOLM  I THINK THE WHOLE QUESTION OF BLACK POWER FROM THE MARCHERS AND SNCC, THE BLACK POWER CONVENTION OF ADAM CLAYTON POWELL HAD SET IN MOTION. IN 1970, THE BLACK POWER CONFERENCE WAS TRANSFORMED INTO THE CONGRESS OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN ATLANTA.  THE IDEA OF THE THIRD PARTY DID COME UP. JESSE JACKSON SUPPORTED THE   IDEA OF A BLACK POLITICAL PARTY. THE BLACK BOURGEOISIE SUPPORTED       NATIONALIZING THE BLACK VOTE, TO VOTE FOR A BLACK PRESIDENT. THE TERM  `UNITY WITHOUT UNIFORMITY'  I HAD TO GO TO MIAMI & SEE THAT THE BLACK AGENDA WHICH HAD BEEN PUT    TOGETHER WAS PRINTED, WE TRIED TO GET JOHN JOHNSON OF EBONY TO PRINT & DISTRIBUTE IT,BUT WE MANAGED TO PRINT IT.  MALCOLM REPRESENTED A DIFFERENT CLASS OF PEOPLE