Amiri Baraka and Thomas Cripps discuss cultural changes experienced by the American black community, especially in arts and politics in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as considering what the 1980s might hold.
At the time of this interview, Baraka, formerly LeRoi Jones, was a poet, playwright, and nonfiction writer and professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Cripps, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1980-81), was professor of history at Morgan State University.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
