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Black Panthers and LAPD

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Angela Davis, Black Panther Party, Black Power Movement, Los Angeles, Police

There is much to learn from studying the Black Power Movement in the context of the Black intellectual-activist tradition. It takes

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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Sun Ra Speaks About the Trial of Angela Davis

June 20, 2018July 2, 2018 Brian Lefresne Afrofuturism, Angela Davis, Black Panther Party, music

Anthony Reed, in his recent article on the grammar of utopia and freedom in the music of jazz performer Sun

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The Women at the Heart of Black Power

April 25, 2018April 30, 2018 Joshua Clark Davis #RemakingBlackPower, Angela Davis, Black Arts Movement, black politics, Black women, black women scholars

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power Ashley D. Farmer’s Remaking Black Power: How Black

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Black Radicalism and Voices of Resistance

December 16, 2017December 21, 2017 Dan Berger Angela Davis, mass incarceration, Political Prisoners, prisons

First published at the end of 1971, Angela Davis’ If They Come in the Morning is the kind of urgent tract

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