Civil Rights and Black Power Movements

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“Get up, Stand Up!” Peter Tosh: A revolutionary life

Monica Cruz

September 27, 2016

On September 11, 1987, unidentified assailants ambushed and assassinated the Rasta musician and revolutionary Peter Tosh in Kingston, Jamaica. The very poverty and violence Tosh dedicated his life to speaking out against ultimately claimed his ...

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Civil Rights and Black Power Movements

50 years since the Panthers formed, Capitalism + Drugs ...

Danny Shaw

February 11, 2016

“Trapped in a vicious cycle of ignorance, poverty, disease, sickness and death, and there seems no way out. There seems to be no way of escape. And because there seems to be no hope, no ...

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Black Liberation

The Black Panter Party Los Angeles office was target of a massive, military-style raid in the first use of SWAT teams.

The racist history of police militarization and mass incarceration

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August 12, 2014

The following is adapted from Puryear’s book “Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America” (Liberation Books, 2013) In August 1971, a lawyer for big tobacco in Richmond, Va., sent a memorandum to an acquaintance ...

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Civil Rights and Black Power Movements

When Native people in North Carolina drove out the KKK

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August 12, 2014

Racists defeated in 1958 Battle of Hayes Pond In the 1950s, the movement for civil rights had gained serious momentum, shaking the system of Jim Crow white supremacy to its core and provoking a vicious ...

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Black Liberation

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Ed

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August 12, 2014

What is the legacy of this historic civil rights victory? Nearly sixty years ago, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, declaring segregation in public ...

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Malcolm X with early leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization

The long history of Black and Palestinian solidarity

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August 12, 2014

International solidarity in the face of racism The acquittal of racist murderer George Zimmerman sparked outrage and demonstrations not only in the United States, but all around the world—including in Palestine. Many Palestinians circulated pictures ...

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Communism and Black resistance in the 1930s South

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July 14, 2014

Book review: “Hammer and Hoe” “Hammer and Hoe,” a 1990 book written by historian Robin D.G. Kelley, chronicles the development of a communist movement in Alabama during the Great Depression. It highlights the struggles communists ...

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Gloria Richardson, local leader of the Cambridge movement, pushes away the bayonet of a National Guard officer

Cambridge, Md. 1963: when the civil rights movement hit back

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July 3, 2014

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the historic and militant struggle of the Second Ward residents of Dorchester County, Maryland in 1963. The residents of the Second Ward launched a community-based effort against racist ...

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Watts erupted in rebellion against social conditions and police repression.

Watts 1965: from spontaneous uprising to revolutionary force

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July 3, 2014

With the 40th anniversary of the Watts rebellion upon us, many still point to the arrests of Marquette, Rena and Ronald Frye as the embers that set Watts ablaze in 1965. On Aug. 11, the ...

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Black Panther Party members and supporters

The civil rights and Black Power movements

admin

July 3, 2014

From democratic rights to national liberation The decade of the 1950s is known for the dramatic rise of reactionary politics, especially the virulent anti-communism of the McCarthy era. Amidst and against this period of great ...

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