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The Legacy of the Gary Convention

March 25, 2022March 24, 2022 Robert Greene II #GaryConvention50, Amiri Baraka, Black Power, Congressional Black Cacus, Harold Cruse, Jesse Jackson

The long shadow of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, continues to overwhelm Black political and intellectual

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The Fight for Black Freedom Transcends National Borders

March 17, 2022March 16, 2022 Shaun Armstead Dorthy Height, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, National Council of Negro Women, UNIA

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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CORE’s Struggle for Fair Housing Rights in LA

March 1, 2022February 28, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, black protest, Civil Rights Movement

It has been 60 years since the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) targeted racially segregated housing in Los Angeles. Although

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Black Social Gospel, Radical Politics, and Internationalism

February 22, 2022February 21, 2022 William Hogue black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black radicalism, religion

Often the history of radical Black Christians seems to jump from Abolition to Civil Rights with very little in between.

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Call for Submissions: The Gary National Political Convention of 1972

February 4, 2022February 3, 2022 Robert Greene II Amiri Baraka, Black National Convention, Black Politicians, black politics, Gary

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts centering on the Gary

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