Remembering Mandela's 1964 Life Sentence
The decision for the ANC take up armed struggle, was not the introduction of violence in South Africa. Whites held that dubious distinction.
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Malcolm X's 'Message to the Grassroots' turns 60
Malcolm X made a point of delineating the differences between Black revolutionaries and the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Roots of Black August and Why It Still Matters Today
The Roots of Black August, Nicaraguans Placed Under Sanctions, US-Russia Tensions Escalating In Syria
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Asking the Oppressed to Be Nonviolent Is an Impossible Standard That Ignores History
The demand that protest only be nonviolent helps preserve an often corrupt and abusive status quo.
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Why The Movement For Black Liberation Needs an Internationalist Focus
Monkeypox Presents A Global Public Health Risk, Pope Offers Weak Apology For Genocide In Canada, Brittney Griner Still Used As A Pawn 30.07.2022, Sputnik International
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'You had to basically wrestle change': United League members share movement in their own words
It was the 1974 death of a Black laborer in Byhalia that spurred United League co-founder Alfred “Skip” Robinson to change Northeast Mississippi.
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'Frontline' film 'American Reckoning' gives a broader view of the civil rights fight
PBS "Frontline" documentary, "American Reckoning," focuses on the assassination of a Mississippi civil rights leader and armed resistance to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest & White Denial: An Interview With Steven Garabedian
AL: African-American culture contains a treasure trove of wonderful music. Yet there is this entire category of song that seems to have disappeared from history. I’m thinking about the song In Atlanta, Georgia with the line, “I’m gonna get me a pistol and hide behind a tree / shoot everybody been messin’ with me.” This is a lyric with a far different sentiment than “We Shall Overcome,” but I don’t know that many people have ever heard it. What kind of songs did Gellert uniqu...
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