Baraka, who once famously declared “it’s nation time,” argues that the urgency is gone because younger people and middle-class African Americans have replaced the idea of community with the ideal of the American Dream. “There are a whole lot of people in the younger generation that think things have always been like this —that it’s about them, personally, moving on up, like the show used to say, rather than understanding the struggle of the whole people,” Baraka says. “The black middle class [also] doesn’t feel like their future is tied to the future of black America