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Maulana Karenga, Operational Unity, and the Black Power Movement

October 9, 2024October 6, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. 3 Comments
black intellectual history, Black Power, Politics

Maulana Karenga, founder and chair of the Organization Us (Us), developed the concept of operational unity during the Black Power Movement. Several

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Clotil Walcott and Black Power in Trinidad and Tobago

September 19, 2024September 19, 2024 Max Lewontin 1 Comment
#BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Black women, Caribbean, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.”  In June 1984 Trinidadian labor

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Black Is, Black Ain’t: “Unnatural by Whose Standard?”

April 2, 2024March 26, 2024 Tiffany Pennamon black feminism, LGBT, race, sexuality

Representations of Blackness in film and other visual mediums have often presented Black identity in ways that are limiting and

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Black Women’s Activism and the Long 1960s: A CBFS Interview

March 14, 2024March 11, 2024 Lucien Baskin Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Resistance

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne

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Sabotage of the First Black New Orleans Journalist

January 16, 2024January 3, 2024 Bala Baptiste Civil Rights Movement, racism, Resistance

It was a hot, balmy day in the Crescent City of New Orleans in June of 1970 when Warren Brown

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