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The Legacy of the Gary Convention

March 25, 2022March 24, 2022 Robert Greene II #GaryConvention50, Amiri Baraka, Black Power, Congressional Black Cacus, Harold Cruse, Jesse Jackson

The long shadow of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, continues to overwhelm Black political and intellectual

The Residue of ‘72

March 24, 2022March 23, 2022 Dena Holland-Neal #GaryConvention50, black politics, Gary, Gary National Black Political Convention, Richard G. Hatcher

In 1972, I was a senior in high school at Gary West Side. It was an exciting year! All Hoosiers

‘Nationtime’ Shows That Blacks, Too, Have Become More Inclusive

March 23, 2022March 22, 2022 Wayne A. Young Amiri Baraka, Barbara Jordan, black politics, Gary, Gary Convention, Nationtime, Richard Gordon Hatcher

When William Greaves’ film about the 1972 National Black Political Convention, which took place in my hometown of Gary, Indiana,

Black Mayors, Black Politics, and the Gary Convention

March 22, 2022March 21, 2022 Brandon Stokes #GaryConvention50, Activism, black politics, Black Power

The National Black Political Convention of 1972 saw many national giants on the Black political scene with Amiri Baraka and

Northern Black People’s Freedom Struggle in the Nineteenth Century

March 21, 2022March 20, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. black lives matter, black protest, Resistance

During the mid-nineteenth-century, Black people collectively fought for racial equality and social justice within the U.S. The scholarship of historians,