sentences:  These articles included a page-one exposé of his positions in the inaugural issue of "Stony Brook Press" on October 25, 1979, discussing his protests "against what he perceived as racism in the Africana Studies Department, as evidenced by a dearth of tenured professors".Shortly thereafter, Baraka took a tenure-track assistant professorship at Stony Brook in 1980 to assist "the struggling Africana Studies Department"; in 1983, he was promoted to associate professor and earned tenure.In June 1979 Baraka was arrested and jailed at Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.