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You’ll be greeted (at a location I’m not permitted to disclose) by a person named “Freddy” who will give you a series of instructions and lead you to another location that I’m not permitted to disclose, where your refitnessing towards iConsciousness will take place.

Published: Monday, July 30, 2012, 8:49 p.m.
Updated 15 hours ago 

The more things change the more they stay the same, such is the case with America’s fixation with race and is the reason why a play written in 1964 still packs a wallop almost 40 years later. If there was ever an illusion of a post-racial America, Leroi (now known as Amiri Baraka) Jones’ “Dutchman” serves a time continuum to keep us honest: assimilation, even if it is a Black family living in a White House, will not render race moot.

Published: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 2:46 p.m.
Updated 20 hours ago 

Back in 1964, playwright Amiri Baraka, then known as Leroi Jones, wrote an incendiary short play called "Dutchman."

In the midst of the political and social upheaval, "Dutchman" openly exposed the wounds inflicted by slavery, segregation and bigotry as well as the potential tragedy that might result.

His metaphoric-yet-visceral drama focused on an encounter between Lula, a young white woman, and Clay, a young black man, on a New York City subway train.