We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got invol
Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.