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Gloria Richardson and the Struggle for Black Liberation

September 21, 2018September 25, 2018 Joseph R. Fitzgerald Activism, Black Power, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, race, Resistance

This is an excerpt from Joseph R. Fitzgerald’s The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation, scheduled to be published

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The Liberatory Potential of Black Theology

September 4, 2018September 8, 2018 Wende Marshall James Cone Forum, liberation theology, religion, spirituality

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. In the 1980s I was

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Comrades in the Struggle for Black Freedom: Gerald Horne and W.E.B. Du Bois

August 24, 2018September 2, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by blogger Phillip

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Sandra Bland and Assata Shakur: Imagining Liberation from Persecution

July 12, 2018July 16, 2018 Cristina Mislan #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, prisons, Sandra Bland

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The

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Martin Luther King Jr. and Workers’ Rights in Baltimore

April 4, 2018April 7, 2018 Jane Berger Baltimore, capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and American Cities, Resistance

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. In 1968, municipal sanitation workers

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