Sayles, James Yaki

Like the revs that he most considered his teachersA[a¬aMalcolm X and George JacksonA[a¬aJames Yaki Sayles grew up poor and found his maturity in prison, the place that Malcolm called A[a¬Athe Black manA[a¬a[s university.A[a¬A A child of ChicagoA[a¬a[s South Side streets, Yaki always just thought of himself as a blood, A[a¬Ajust another nigger doing a bitA[a¬A (to borrow the laconic words of one of the Pontiac state prison revolt defendants). And it was in the prison movement that he found his place in the battlefield. Although he made revolutionary theory his work, his life was rooted in a tim