By 1967, Jones had changed his name to Amiri Baraka and moved to Harlem where he founded the Black Arts Repertory/School. Deeply affected by the assassination of Malcolm X, Baraka became a leader in the Black Nationalist Movement, estranged himself from his white friends from the Beat era, and separated from his wife and children. During the sixties, Amiri Baraka published a number of influential works espousing the ideals of black separatism, and it was not until 1974 that he came to see black nationalism as a destructive form of racism. In the seventies and eighties Baraka taught at a number of Universities including Yale, Rutgers, San Francisco State, and the New School for Social Research. Currently Baraka is the director of a children's theater group called Spirit House in Newark, New Jersey where he continues to lead an active life in literature and politics.