baraka, leroy jones, his star began to rise. he was taken a look at his politics, as well as his artistry. shortly thereafter, he called the meeting of some of us who had been active in the community. the organization was called the united brother. from the united brother's it morphed into unified newark, which was the main platform for the election of the first black mayor. would can have been elected without the rebellion? not that time, not in 1970, maybe in 1974. the rebellion speeded up the entire electoral political process and created new leadership locally, which had been there all the time. michael: we want to take a few questions from you. we have two microphone set up behind this first row of seats. if you could go there to ask questions, probably be best. it is just right behind there. if you could go to the microphone, it would be better. >> good afternoon. can you all hear me? thank you so much for a wonderful panel and a wonderful discussion. i am dr. erica from time magazine. i wanted to bring up two points. one

jones. of course barack is back in those days, leroy joint was living in a village then, but they were like what i would call my idols at that time in terms of my own literary aspirations. i want to write the great american novel, and so i look to them as inspiration and examples of how to move. they kind of embrace me in a way. malcolm was like this voice i was hearing and say you won't go away because like echoing but unlike connected more immunity with these other writers at the because that's where my aspirations were there at that point. but anyway the army was chasing me and i let him catch me and i went into the service in 1962 when i was just on the precipice because of return to detroit, and floyd again is right around the corner and he said herb, boom, boom. i said okay okay i'll go ahead and join the nation of islam. just as i was going to all the process the army grabbed me up. almost had option when you go the nation of islam and say i'm conscientious objector and all that, or join the army and see the world. just always that adventurous spirit that i had to think i inherited f