Not long after the 1967 riots, Baraka generated controversy when he went on the radio with a Newark police captain and Anthony Imperiale, a politician and private business owner, and the three of them blamed the riots on "white-led, so-called radical groups" and "Communists and the Trotskyite persons". That same year his second book of jazz criticism, "Black Music", came out. It was a collection of previously published music journalism, including the seminal "Apple Cores" columns from "Down Beat" magazine. Around this time he also formed a record label called Jihad, which produced and issued only three LPs, all released in 1968: "Sonny's Time Now" with Sunny Murray, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Lewis Worrell, Henry Grimes, and Baraka; "A Black Mass", featuring Sun Ra; and "Black & Beautiful – Soul & Madness" by the Spirit House Movers, on which Baraka reads his poetry.