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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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Flying Lotus and Registers of Black Life and Death

May 11, 2020May 10, 2020 Tiffany Barber and Isabel Jean-Louis #NewBlackSurrealisms, Black film, film, hip hop, Los Angeles, music

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. The music video

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We are our own Multitude: Los Angeles’ Black Panamanian Community

November 4, 2019November 2, 2019 Jenise Miller #BlackCalifornia, African Diaspora, Afro-Latinx, California, Caribbean, culture, Los Angeles, Panama

*This essay is republished in partnership with Boom California as part of an ongoing series on Black California. On a Saturday

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Stop Killer Cops: Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Liberal Establishment

September 4, 2019August 31, 2019 AAIHS Editors Activism, Los Angeles, New York, organizing, police violence, policing, racism, urban history, violence

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

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The Rise of Incarceration in Los Angeles: An Interview with Kelly Lytle Hernandez

October 28, 2017October 31, 2017 Erica Sterling Los Angeles, mass incarceration

In today’s post, Erica Sterling, a PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University, interviews Kelly Lytle Hernandez about

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