Search Results for: Black Power

Sometime Between: Living Archives and the Power of Black Agency

September 25, 2017September 29, 2017 Rhon Manigault-Bryant #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, religion

This post is the introduction to our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming In the opening pages of New World A-Coming: Black

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Colin Kaepernick and the Power of Black Silent Protest

September 4, 2017September 7, 2017 Ameer Hasan Loggins Activism, black protest, Colin Kaepernick, police brutality

On July 28, 1917, thousands of Black children, women, and men stoically marched in silence down Fifth Avenue in New

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Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years

February 27, 2017March 1, 2017 Dan Berger black radical tradition, Politics, Resistance, Trumpism

“Power concedes nothing without demand,” argued Frederick Douglass in one of his most cited speeches. “It never did and it

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Beholding Mizzou and the Power of Black Students

November 11, 2015March 19, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi

After a series of protests, most recently a hunger strike by a graduate student and more than 30 Black student-athletes

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Straight Outta Compton and the Power of Black Women’s “Side Stories”

September 3, 2015 Janell Hobson

When director F. Gary Gray chose to cut the scene depicting rap producer Dr. Dre’s infamous assault on journalist Dee Barnes, then-TV

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