question: Black & White attempted to connect which American cult leader with California's counterculture?
answer: James Warren Jones
context: Title: Cult Leader
  Passage: Cult Leader is an American metalcore band that formed in 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah.  It was founded by three members of Gaza following the band's break up.  Cult Leader signed to Jacob Bannon's label Deathwish Inc. and have released two EPs and a 2015 studio album, "Lightless Walk".
  Title: Marshall Applewhite
  Passage: Marshall Herff Applewhite, Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as "Bo" and "Do", among other names, was an American cult leader who founded what became known as the Heaven's Gate religious group and organized their mass suicide in 1997, claiming the lives of thirty-nine people.
  Title: Monster Bat Incident 1771
  Passage: The Monster Bat Incident 1771 concerns an attempt to use a bat that was as wide as the wicket, during a cricket match between Chertsey and Hambledon at Laleham Burway that lasted from 23 September to 24 September 1771.  Controversy arose when Chertsey's Thomas White attempted to use the bat, while the Hambledon players objected.  Ultimately Hambledon won the match by one run.  The incident is occasionally ascribed to "Shock" White, a contemporary of Thomas White, but they were different players.
  Title: George E. White (missionary)
  Passage: George Edward White (October 14, 1861 – April 27, 1946) was an American Congregationalist missionary for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for forty-three years.  Stationed in the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide as President of the Anatolia College in Merzifon, White attempted to save the lives of many Armenians, including "refused to tell" where Armenians were hiding so to save them from getting deported or killed.  Thus he became an important witness to the Armenian Genocide.
  Title: Lightless Walk
  Passage: Lightless Walk is the debut studio album by American metalcore band Cult Leader.  The album was released on October 16, 2015 through Deathwish Inc. and produced by Kurt Ballou of Converge.  The track "Gutter Gods" previously appeared on Cult Leader's 2015 EP "Useless Animal".
  Title: Jim Jones
  Passage: James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American religious and cult leader, who initiated, and was responsible for a mass suicide and mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana.  He believed communism was the correct social order, in compliance with God's will.  Jones was ordained as a Disciples of Christ pastor, and he achieved notoriety as the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which was often described as having cult-like qualities.
  Title: Black &amp; White (book)
  Passage: Black & White is a non-fiction book written by Shiva Naipaul and published by Hamish Hamilton in the U.K. in 1980.  It was published with the title Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy in the U.S.  The book is based on Naipaul's trip to Guyana in the aftermath of the Jonestown Massacre, and his subsequent trip to the United States, in which he explored links between the People's Temple and other groups and individuals.  Naipaul attempted to connect Rev. Jim Jones, founder of the People's Temple, with disparate parts of California's counterculture, and Guyanese and other Third World governments and the revolutionary ideologies which supported them.  Naipaul was highly critical of these and other movements, including black theology, the nascent New Age movement and EST, in as much as they helped, in his analysis, to create fertile ground for the People's Temple to flourish on the two continents.  The book's US paperback cover tagline reads "How American ideas and ideologies led to the mass suicide of 900 people in Jonestown, Guyana."
  Title: Nothing for Us Here
  Passage: Nothing for Us Here is the debut EP by the American rock band Cult Leader.  The EP was released on April 15, 2014 through Deathwish Inc. Cult Leader created "Nothing for Us Here" in about a week and were planning on self-releasing it.  After sending a copy to their friend Jacob Bannon of Converge to see what he thought of it, Bannon suggested releasing the EP through his own label, Deathwish.  The title of the EP has a few different meanings for Cult Leader.  Vocalist Anthony Lucero said one meaning is about the end of his previous band Gaza and how "everything we worked for was just falling apart," and it's also a reference to "the breath of the death: the moment when there's no more life left in you and you have to face oblivion."  Lucero also created the album's artwork.
  Title: Useless Animal
  Passage: Useless Animal is an extended play by the American rock band Cult Leader.  Released through Deathwish Inc. on June 16, 2015, the EP features two exclusive tracks (the original composition "Useless Animal," and the cover song "You Are Not My Blood") and one original composition titled "Gutter Gods" that would later be released on the band's 2015 debut album, "Lightless Walk".  "Useless Animal" was recorded in late 2014 by Andy Patterson, who previously recorded Gaza's 2009 album, "He Is Never Coming Back"—the now-defunct band that featured three members and gave birth to Cult Leader.
citations: Jim Jones Black &amp; White (book)