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For Generations, Black People have led Global Antiracist Movements

This year’s Black History Month comes in the aftermath of last summer’s global uprisings after the police killing of George Floyd.

In 1967, Gwen Patton was driving to Montgomery, Alabama when her car started to rattle and stutter. She pulled over

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ In the aftermath of the sixties’ Black rebellions,

Kim Janey will probably vacate her position as president of the Boston City Council to become the city’s acting mayor.

In late 1969, Fred Hampton issued a call to defund the police, if in different terms than those currently in