Career
His writings have been published in Negro Digest, American Dialog, New Black Poetry, Natural Process and Freedomways. A long-time resident of New York City, Raphael currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. Raphael worked as a reporter in Jamaica before first coming to the United States as a United Nations correspondent.
He also became a staff writer for the underground newspaper the East Village Other, and an editor of Umbra, a poetry journal based in New New York
In 1969 Raphael worked as a writer in the schools with the Teachers & Writers Collaborative at P.S. 26 in Brooklyn, New New York Journalism In his journalism Raphael has explored the relationship between black West Indian immigrants to the United States and the longer established African-American community.
He points out that, in the 1960s, although there was a need for West Indian immigrants to show solidarity with African-Americans, many of those immigrants felt themselves to be superior to American-born blacks.
