Search Results for: Black Panther Party

‘Welcome to East Austin’: Black Power and the American Dream

January 23, 2023January 21, 2023 Brandon James Render #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. In 1971, the Community United Front,

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The Untethered Tongue: Lifting the Black Feminine Voice in Jazz

December 16, 2022December 27, 2022 Sandra Booker Billie Holiday, jazz, music, Nina Simone, Women

What is freedom? Freedom is existing unrestrained in thoughts, actions, and achievements but is not absolved from the world’s reactions

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Black Panthers and LAPD

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Angela Davis, Black Panther Party, Black Power Movement, Los Angeles, Police

There is much to learn from studying the Black Power Movement in the context of the Black intellectual-activist tradition. It takes

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New England’s Unsung Black Liberation Movement

December 8, 2022December 6, 2022 Dylan O’Hara Activism, Boston, education, Massachusetts, New England, School Activism

Zebulon Miletsky’s impressive book project, Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle, weaves together 350 years of

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Black Teachers and Liberation: A CBFS Interview

November 30, 2022November 30, 2022 Lucien Baskin Black Power, Black University, education, Liberation, teaching

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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