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Earl Anthony and the Black Panther Party

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black nationalism, Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, FBI, Maulana Karenga

The Black Panther Party was founded on October 15, 1966, with Earl Anthony joining the following April. His 1990 book,

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Organizing for Reproductive Justice: An Interview with Barbara Smith

August 8, 2022August 1, 2022 Joseph R. Fitzgerald #ReproductiveRights, Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black radicalism, Black women, reproductive justice

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In today’s post, Barbara Smith is interviewed

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Reproductive Justice and Black Women’s Activism

August 5, 2022February 27, 2023 Tiana U. Wilson #ReproductiveRights, Activism, Black women, health, medicine

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In September 1986, former Third World Women’s

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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Resurrecting Shirley Chisholm from Symbol to Life

June 1, 2022May 31, 2022 Anastasia Curwood Congressional Black Cacus, Jesse Jackson, Politics, Shirley Chisholm, Sojourner Truth

Fifteen years ago, I decided to write a biography of a Black woman. My scholarly genealogy pushed me toward such

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