Remembering Marcus Garvey Through Reggae
Listen to the music. February 6 marks the birthday of Bob Marley. Born in Jamaica in 1945, the Reggae icon
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Black Internationalism
Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown
On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred members of the San Francisco-based Peoples Temple church (including over three hundred children)
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“Class Struggle Pan-Africanism”: C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain
In her contribution to the 1992 edited volume C.L.R. James’s Caribbean, the Jamaican literary scholar Sylvia Wynter coined the term
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Online Forum: “Remembering Malcolm”
February 19-25, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online forum in recognition of the 52nd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination.
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Black-Owned Bookstores: Anchors of the Black Power Movement
In the summer of 1968, veteran members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) opened a shop in Washington, D.C.,
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