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
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Memory
Black Mayors, Black Politics, and the Gary Convention
The National Black Political Convention of 1972 saw many national giants on the Black political scene with Amiri Baraka and
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A Sampling of Black Perspectives Posts: July to December 2021
Black Perspectives continued its tradition of tying Black intellectual history to a wide range of fields throughout the second half
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The International MLK
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1959 Morehouse Commencement Address offered the young pastor an opportunity to tell the graduates of his
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Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans
In 1831, Nat Turner—who led a band of bondpeople into insurrection in Southampton, Virginia –was executed, quelling what a great
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