black power

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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.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3-6-15
  

  From Selma to Black Power

  by Benjamin Hedin

  Only a few miles away from where the legendary march began, a new phase of civil-rights activism gathered momentum.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12-27-13
  

  Britain's black power movement is at risk of being forgotten, say historians

  New biography of Darcus Howe claims struggle is ignored because it does not fit idea of Britain as 'utopia of fair play'.