... radicalized him. Jones left his white wife (Hettie Cohen), cut off his white friends and moved from Greenwich Village to Harlem. He renamed himself Imamu Ameer Baraka, "spiritual leader blessed prince," and dismissed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ...
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Books/2014/Jan-10/243755-activist-poet-playwright-amiri-baraka-dies-at-79.ashx
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Books/2014/Jan-10/243755-activist-poet-playwright-amiri-baraka-dies-at-79.ashx
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