Black Panther, Black Power, and the Black Nationalist Tradition
*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter
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Black Power
The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies
The Black Studies movement, inaugurated in the late 1960s by student- and community-based demands for a “more relevant education,” represented
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“History is Knowledge, Identity, and Power”: Lerone Bennett Jr., 1928–2018
When I found out about Lerone Bennett, Jr’s passing, I was immediately struck by his sense of poetic timing. In life, Bennett
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Chokwe Lumumba and Black Nationalist Convergence
Eight months into his tenure as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba passed away on February 25, 2014. The sixty-six-year-old mayor
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End the Isolation of Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown): An Open Letter
The following post is an open letter by Arun Kundnani to the Bureau of Prisons and State of Georgia asking
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