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SOURCE: The New Yorker
3/6/2023
Exhibiting the Black Panthers' Ephemera
An exhibition of the radical group's posters illustrates the importance-and difficulty-of documenting political movements that used visual communications through ephemeral media like postering and newspapers.
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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: The Atlantic
1/10/2023
I Grew Up in a Black Liberationist Commune
From 1973 to the early 2000s, the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church operated a communal home in a Detroit apartment building, dedicated to the collective project of replacing received notions of Black inferiority with a sense of possibility.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/16/2022
Stephen Shames's Photos Document the Lives and Activism of Black Panther Party Women
As a college student, Shames built trust with the members of the BPP and documented their activism. Now, working with former member Ericka Huggins, a book of those photos preserves the history.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/2/2022
New Documentary uses Fight for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama as Lens on Present
Vann Newkirk, whose work inspired "Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power" examines how a conservative white minority fought to keep power even after the passage of the Voting Rights Act
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SOURCE: The New Republic
7/30/2021
The Revolution that Wasn't: What did 1960s Radicals Achieve?
by Michael Kazin
A new book of narrative history of the 1960s New Left repeats a common error: mistaking rhetoric for revolution and ignoring a key outcome of the decade: that the right emerged more powerful, argues reviewer Michael Kazin.
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SOURCE: In These Times
7/15/2021
Learn Lessons about Movement Building from Radical Black Women
by Keisha N. Blain, Premilla Nadasen and Robyn C. Spencer
Barbara Ransby facilitates a roundtable collaborative essay about the role of women in building radical movements for justice in Black communities encompassing social welfare, economic security, police accountability, women's liberation and more.
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SOURCE: CNN
6/28/2021
This Late Civil Rights Icon's Imprint Is Everywhere Today
by Peniel E. Joseph
"Stokely Carmichael's legacy spans the movement for Black power, the push for voting rights in the 21st century and the recent political campaigns that have given voice to those seeking more radical change."
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SOURCE: Knightlab
6/29/2021
Fists of Freedom: A Storymap of Responses to the Olympics Protest of John Carlos and Tommie Smith
by Lou Moore
Louis Moore presents an interactiv graphic exploration of media responses to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics protest of American sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith.
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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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