The Residue of ‘72
In 1972, I was a senior in high school at Gary West Side. It was an exciting year! All Hoosiers
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Black Political Thought
‘Nationtime’ Shows That Blacks, Too, Have Become More Inclusive
When William Greaves’ film about the 1972 National Black Political Convention, which took place in my hometown of Gary, Indiana,
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Black Mayors, Black Politics, and the Gary Convention
The National Black Political Convention of 1972 saw many national giants on the Black political scene with Amiri Baraka and
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The Fight for Black Freedom Transcends National Borders
This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. In a recent news conference, Senate Minority Leader
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The African American Origins of Modern Asylum
Harriet Tubman, living in Ontario, Canada for most of 1851 to 1861, told an abolitionist interviewing fugitive slaves north of
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