black power

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  4/13/2021
  

  Sounds of Freedom: The Music of Black Liberation

  Shana Redmond and Rickey Vincent discuss their research, which deals with the ways that musical expression has been integrated into the politics of Black freedom in different moments (and different musical styles, including the Black Panther Party's own funk band). 

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• 3/21/2021
  

  Incognegro, Part II: How New York Law Enforcement Worked to Destroy Core

  by L.E.J. Rachell

  Ray Wood's memoir alleges that as a rookie NYPD detective he was coerced to act as an agent provocateur to convince members of New York's Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) chapters to commit crimes or other acts that would discredit and destroy the movement. The NYPD and FBI could clear the air by releasing their files on infiltration of Black-led organizations. 

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  2/23/2021
  

  For Many, an Afro isn’t Just a Hairstyle

  Journalist Ernie Suggs reflects on how hairstyles reflected his own family's history, with backing from historians Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Noliwe Rooks. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  2/16/2021
  

  How White Liberals Destroyed the 1970s’ Soul City

  by Brentin Mock

  The new book "Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia," by Seton Hall Law School professor Thomas Healy, explores the history of how and why Floyd McKissick’s experiment came to be, and its unceremonious end. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/11/2021
  

  American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread

  Atlantic Editor Vann Newkirk examines the recent and imperiled history of American democracy since the Voting Rights Act, including by interviewing Charles Hamilton, co-author of the keystone book "Black Power." 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/25/2020
  

  James E. Hinton’s Unseen Films Reframe the Black Power Movement

  Hinton’s work as a cinematographer and filmmaker achieved a similar balance between taking in the grander sweep of history and considering the nature, appearance, manner, and presence of the individual people making it.

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  9/18/2020
  

  The Danger Of Depoliticising Black Power Activism

  Both celebrities and consumer brands have appropriated the aesthetics of the Black Panther Party and other Black militants, without dealing with the substance of their politics. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/5/2020
  

  Revolution on Trial: Looking back at New Haven's Black Panthers at 50

  The 50th anniversary of the polarising New Haven Nine trial has led to a group exhibition exploring racial injustice.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/1/2020
  

  Stokely Carmichael Didn’t Deserve Bill Clinton’s Swipe During John Lewis’s Funeral

  by Hasan Kwame Jeffries

  This mischaracterization of Carmichael serves a purpose. It allows people to dismiss his critique of America.

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• SOURCE: Lawyers, Guns & Money
  8/3/2020
  

  We Don’t Need Bill Clinton’s History Of Civil Rights

  by Erik Loomis

  Bill Clinton decided to use John Lewis’ funeral to take a shot at Stokely Carmichael. The last thing we need is whites to use such opportunities to tell histories of the civil rights movements that are used to make them feel comfortable.

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• 7/19/2020
  

  The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Black Action Movement and the Way Forward

  by Martin Halpern

  Activists in today’s struggles against institutionalized racism and for black lives can benefit from studying a local victory of fifty years ago. In the spring of 1970, the Black Action Movement (BAM) at the University of Michigan led a thirteen-day strike that won a commitment to change by the university administration.

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• 3/8/2020
  

  Who Killed Ralph Featherstone?

  by Peter Levy

  Reopening the investigation of the bombing deaths of Ralph Featherstone and William Payne at the fiftieth anniversary of the crime will shed further light on the dangers of unchecked government agencies and the shortcomings of the fifth estate.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  2/20/20
  

  How the Black Power Movement Influenced the Civil Rights Movement

  Even after the Black Power movement’s decline in the late 1970s, its impact would continue to be felt for generations to come.

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• 10/6/19
  

  Incognegro: How Law Enforcement Spies on Black Radical Groups

  by L.E.J. Rachell

  From COINTELPRO to Black Lives Matter. 

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• SOURCE: African American Intellectual History Society
  9/17/19
  

  Revisiting the Poor People's Campaign and Its Legacy

  by Bobby Cervantes

  Sylvie Laurent’s new book about the Poor Peoples Campaign is not far removed from the political scene today.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/31/19
  

  The Real Roots of ‘Black Capitalism’

  by Mehrsa Baradaran

  Nixon’s solution for racial ghettos was tax breaks and incentives, not economic justice.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/26/19
  

  The danger of denying black Americans political rights

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  Without access to political rights, violence becomes a crucial tool in the fight for freedom.

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• 2/10/19
  

  Why the Congress of Racial Equality Has Been Forgotten – And Why It Still Matters Today

  by L.E.J. Rachell

  We need to go back to CORE to have a better understanding of the ongoing antiracist movement.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  8-4-16
  

  Daily Beast says Olympics Black Power athletes are owed an apology

  "After Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in silent protest, sports legend Brent Musburger wrote a hateful screed comparing them to Nazis. It’s time for him to say ‘sorry.’ "

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• SOURCE: Mo4ch News
  6-16-16
  

  ‘Black Power’ turns 50: How the catchphrase revolutionized the civil rights movement

  Fifty years ago this Thursday, a pivotal speech in Greenwood, Mississippi radically changed the direction of the global civil rights movement forever – when Trinidadian immigrant Stokely Carmichael popularized the phrase “Black Power.”