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Eldridge Cleaver and the Afterlives of 1968

*Fifth and final instalment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential campaign* In the November 7, 1968

If transatlantic slavery remains one of the foundational premises of a Black or African Diaspora, then the great ocean—the Atlantic—holds

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

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

*This essay is republished in partnership with Boom California as part of an ongoing series on Black California. On a Saturday