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Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor

Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. I do not

The toll a failed political campaign takes on an individual can be devastating, none more so than when a life

In 1951, William Patterson and the Civil Rights Congress presented a 238-page document to the United Nations accusing the United