#Black Power Movement

[nickysfacts]

Hoop earrings are a staple of Latina and Black womanhood, as well as a stylish piece of jewelry for all of the other sisters!💜

[renegadeurbanmediasource]

It's perfectly ok to say "It's okay to be White". But Black Lives Matter is "Marxist", "racist", etc. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[agirlnamedbone]

Sister Corita Kent // 1969

[madamshogunassassin]

[reasoningdaily]

If we can't sit at the table, lets knock the fuckin legs off James Forman - 1963

[lightdancer1]

The high tide of riots and the militant edge of Black Power was 1968:

In the end it backfired as much as anything can ever be said to backfire. The riots were touched off by the murder of Doctor King, and they meant that hundreds of cities burned at once, on large scales, requiring massive deployments of troops in some of them. When Richard Nixon started insisting in soft-handed phrasing but it was exactly what he meant that 'give these people what they say they want and all they do is hate you and burn their own houses down, I promise law, order, and security' people were willing to listen. This was the wrong view, it neglected that these riots were touched off by King's murder as a pretext but fit into over 100 specific cases of local oppression that was already a time bomb waiting to go off.

So much of the soft-handed white supremacy of the modern age springs from these riots and the approach Richard Nixon used to turn them into the basis for his first sweeping victory.

[elijones94]

👊🏾✊🏾 “You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.”~ Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (H. Rap Brown)

[biglisbonnews]

Power to the people: the branding of the Black Panther party – in pictures As the civil rights movement grew, the Black Panthers become an influential and innovative activist group, focused on redressing systemic oppression. At a new exhibition at Poster House in New York, some of their most powerful posters and newspaper advertisements show a specific graphic language that helped spread their message to the people Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/mar/20/black-panthers-exhibition-poster-house-new-york

[blackstar1887]

Malcolm X: Inspiring Change and Empowerment in the Fight for Equality

[xxconnection]

This Lesbian Poem by Akhaji Zakiya from Lisa C Moore's Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories

[gregor-samsung]

The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 (Göran Olsson, 2011)

[zwischenstadt]

I've posted it before, but I wanted to highlight that there is an active fundraiser for Muhammad Ahmad (Maxwell Stanford). Ahmad was the founder of the Revolutionary Action Movement, a Leninist Black Power that preceded the Black Panthers, and spent the 60s as a radical community organizer in and around Philadelphia. He was targeted by COINTELPRO, and suffered throughout his life from the echoes of a brutal prison sentence he endured as a young adult.

There's a fabulous interview series with him available from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/AWordWithMuhammadAhmad/MuhammadAhmad_3-30-08_pt1.mp3

He was unceremoniously terminated from Temple University in the mid-2010s.

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... flower power ...

"Our Lily" and "Arum Lily", by photographer Stefan Lorant, captured in 1937. An extraordinary comparison where photographer shows similar movements of ballet with flower.

[lightdancer1]

For all that his last 30 years of life in Ghana incline one to think unkindly of Ture's radicalism it did stem from very real experiences:

And the context of his Black Power speech in 1966, the one that gave the name to the later harder-edged Civil Rights movement is likewise often omitted. Kwame Ture spent his career seeking to challenge not just the violent mobs of massive resistance, but the ones in the state of Mississippi, among the most dangerous and bloody-handed of their kind. He saw that white activists of the Civil Rights movement were somewhat apathetic about it and viewed the color of their skin as at least something of a shield (and within some limits it was, sometimes. Other times not).

So when he made the shift, it was in response to real grievances and real realities. Unfortunately for Kwame Ture he had neither the aptitude nor the will to maintain the movement he took over, because maintaining a movement required a kind of focus that he just didn't have or want to have. Radical firebrand speeches are easy, translating them into daily grinding maintenance isn't.

[elijones94]

✊🏾“The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.” ~Stokley Carmichael/Kwame Ture #blackhistorymonth #blackhistorymonth2023 #stokleycarmichael #kwameture