Charles Kenyatta (also known as Charles 37X and Charles Morris) was for three years Malcolm X’s bodyguard, and was present in the Audubon Ballroom when X was assassinated. After X’s death, Kenyatta founded the Mau Mau Society of Harlem, which was dedicated to alleviating rampant crime and drug dealing in that neighborhood. These activities, however, led to several assassination attempts, including one in June 1969 shortly before the printing of this collection of short essays on topics like forced bussing, communism, demographics, the black power movement (“Black Man: Dig Yourself”), drug dealers (“The Neutral Zone”), as well as a reproduction of a 1969 New Yorker article by Renata Adler focusing on Biafran independence. OCLC does not locate the title.

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