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Making Black People Powerful: An Interview with Alicia Garza

February 17, 2020February 16, 2020 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt 0 Comments
Activism, black lives matter, black radical tradition, Black women

This post is part of our Black Organizing Today Series. This series, edited by Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt, consists of interviews

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Housing Discrimination in the Jim Crow US and The Case for Reparations

February 4, 2020February 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors 0 Comments
housing, segregation, urban history

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Say Burgin 2 Comments
Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality. By then, she had left Alabama

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Martin Luther King Jr. on Making America Great Again

January 20, 2020January 19, 2020 Justin Rose 1 Comment
Activism, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Martin Luther King Jr., Resistance

On February 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before the congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church, and preached his final

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Revisiting the Poor People’s Campaign and Its Legacy

September 17, 2019September 16, 2019 Bobby Cervantes Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, capitalism, civil rights, poor, poverty, Resistance, Social Movements

Universal health care, a public-job guarantee, and massive wealth redistribution are not just buzzwords in cable news interviews as myriad

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