On this day in 1964 Amiri Baraka's one-act play, Dutchman, opened off-Broadway, launching its author into 40 years of racial controversy. Baraka, then still known as LeRoi Jones, voiced expressions and attitudes in Dutchman which resonated with black radicals and white iconoclasts of the civil rights era. Most explosively, the play suggested that racial killing might be a last-resort path to healing for oppressed and repressed African-Americans ... FULL STORY »
