Search Results for: Black Power

From ADEFRA to Black Lives Matter: Black Women’s Activism in Germany

July 5, 2017July 10, 2017 Tiffany Florvil Black Europe, Germany

On Saturday, June 24, 2017 at 4:30pm, a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest took place in Berlin, Germany with thousands

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Resurrecting the Radical Pedagogy of the Black Panther Party

July 3, 2017July 5, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella Black Panther Party, Black Panthers

Not long ago I had the opportunity to visit The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black Power! exhibition,

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Black Women, Police Violence, and Mental Illness

June 28, 2017June 30, 2017 Celeste Henery police brutality, police violence

When I heard about Charleena Lyles—I remembered Eleanor Bumpurs, Deborah Danner, and Sophia King. All four were black women with

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Contested Bodies: A New Book on Black Motherhood and Slavery in Jamaica

June 26, 2017June 28, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi archives, Caribbean, Jamaica, slave trade, slavery

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Black Left Student Radicalism of the 1970s: The February First Movement

June 22, 2017June 24, 2017 Richard D. Benson II #BlackLivesMatter, black internationalism, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism

During the 1970s, Black student radicalism in the United States, which began in the 1960s with organizations such as the

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