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Reflections of the 60th Anniversary of Urban Uprisings in America

October 17, 2024October 18, 2024 Heather Ann Thompson UrbanRebellions

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s On this momentous 60th anniversary of

Panthers, Communists, Black Nationalists, and Liberals in Southern California

October 16, 2024October 13, 2024 Gerald Horne Black Power, Black Power Movement, UrbanRebellions

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s The Urban Rebellions of the 1960s

How the 1969 Uprising Challenged Police Brutality in Las Vegas

October 14, 2024October 12, 2024 Tyler Parry Las Vegas, UrbanRebellions

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s On the evening of October 5,

Online Forum-Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024 AAIHS Editors black protest, Resistance, UrbanRebellions

October 14-17, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum that

Maulana Karenga, Operational Unity, and the Black Power Movement

October 9, 2024October 6, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black intellectual history, Black Power, Politics

Maulana Karenga, founder and chair of the Organization Us (Us), developed the concept of operational unity during the Black Power Movement. Several