Black power music functions as cultural documentation and motivational fuel through its evolution from Civil Rights-era declarations to contemporary hip-hop protest lines ...

It began on a hot summer night in Mississippi, with a cry from a young Black activist named Stokely Carmichael. The birth of Black Power in 1966 also saw the spread of Afros, dashikis, and the first ...

“The Black Power Movement provided the energy and talent for black progress for 30 years. Whether you’re talking about affirmative action for higher education, minority participation in economics or ...

It is evident (hat we can be improved and elevated only just so fast and far as we shall improve and elevate ourselves. —Negro Abolitionist Frederick Douglass in 1848 AFTER the slogan “Black Power” ...

The November elections in New York City made one thing clear: Brooklyn has usurped Harlem as the city’s seat of Black political power. Mayor Eric Adams and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who each ...

I’m a strong advocate of Black reverse migration — Black people returning to Southern states from cities in the North and West in order to concentrate political power. This reverse migration was ...

OAKLAND — Walking through the California history gallery at the Oakland Museum, it’s easy to spot the Black Power exhibition — it’s where you see the large raised fist, probably the most famous symbol ...

This review originally ran June 19, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at the Tribeca Festival. The documentary “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power,” which charts efforts to ...

(The Conversation) — In 1966, the assertion of Black power was grounded in an appeal to the founding principles of the United States. Black church leaders called for healing internal divisions through ...

Each summer, the ESSENCE Festival of Culture brings together Grammy-winning artists, grassroots organizers, political leaders, and everyday changemakers to celebrate and advance Black culture and ...

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Original documentary South To Black Power, a This Machine production, directed by Peabody Sam Pollard (HBO’s Hostages, Black Art: In the Absence of Light) and Llewellyn M. Smith ...