George Jackson

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• SOURCE: TIME
  2/23/2023
  

  Black Power is a Love Story

  by Dan Berger

  While the movement is popularly associated with anger, love was the emotional force that enabled activists to struggle for justice against powerful opposition. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  9/4/2022
  

  "Hell, Yes, We Are Subversive": The Legacy of Angela Davis

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  While Davis was acquitted of murder charges in a highly politicized case 50 years ago, her influence on contemporary protest movements has never been higher. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  8/21/2022
  

  Sociologist Brittany Friedman on the Rise and Endurance of Political Organizing by Black Prisoners

  Although it is often linked to the rise of Black Power movements in the late 1960s, evidence shows that state authorities were working to eliminate civil rights organizing among Black prisoners as early as the 1950s.