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The Legacy of the Gary Convention

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

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit.’ Dr. Taylor will be in conversation with Dr. Davarian

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ In the aftermath of the sixties’ Black rebellions,

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Garrett Felber’s Those Who Know Don’t Say.

Following the lead of Martin Luther King, Jr., Black civil rights activists dismantled Jim Crow legislation with colorblind logic. Yet,