Entrepreneurial Appetite

Just in time for the election, Entrepreneurial Appetite, BEST San Antonio, and The Heman Sweatt Center for Black Males bring you a very special book discussion about The Defeat of Black Power Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 by Leonard N. Moore, PhD.

About the Book:

"For three days in 1972 in Gary, Indiana, eight thousand American civil rights activists and Black Power leaders gathered at the National Black Political Convention, hoping to end a years-long feud that divided black America into two distinct camps: integrationists and separatists. While some form of this rift existed within black politics long before the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his death—and the power vacuum it created—heightened tensions between the two groups, and convention leaders sought to merge these competing ideologies into a national, unified call to action. What followed, however, effectively crippled the Black Power movement and fundamentally altered the political strategy of civil rights proponents. An intense and revealing history, Leonard N. Moore’s The Defeat of Black Power provides the first in-depth evaluation of this critical moment in American history.

About the author:

Leonard N. Moore is the Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement and the George Littlefield Professor of American History at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and earned his B.A. from Jackson State University in 1993 and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1998. He was a history professor at Louisiana State University from 1998-2007, where he also directed the African and African American Studies Program and the Pre-Doctoral Scholars' Institute. He has been at The University of Texas at Austin since 2007 and was made permanent Vice President on June 13, 2018, after having served as interim for a year. At UT Austin he teaches a class on the black power movement and a signature course titled "Race in the Age of Trump." In the fall semester, he teaches more than 1,000 students across both courses. His innovative, unique, and engaging teaching style was featured as a cover story in the September/October 2015 edition of the Alcalde. Dr. Moore has received a number of teaching awards including the Jean Holloway Award for Excellence in Teaching and the John Warfield Teaching Award. Moore also directs study abroad programs in Beijing and Cape Town, which have become national models for diversifying global education. In 2004, he was awarded the National Urban League Whitney M. Young Award for Urban Leadership in Education.

Professor Moore is the author of three books on black politics, The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 (Louisiana State University Press, 2018), Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina (Louisiana State University Press, 2010), and Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power in America (University of Illinois Press, 2002). Carl B. Stokes was nominated for the 2002 NAACP Image Award for best non-fiction book. He is currently working on a biography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the controversial pastor, congressman, and civil rights leader. Moore is also active in the Austin community and currently serves as Chairman of the Board for the Austin Area Urban League.

The book can be purchased at:

https://lsupress.org/books/detail/defeat-of-black-power/

www.amazon.com

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In this bonus episode of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black book discussions we feature the continued conversation with Luc Cadet, founder of Abantu Audio.  For more information about how you subscribe to Abantu Audio go to https://www.abantuaudio.com/.

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In this episode of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions,  we feature a conversation between Hannibal B. Johnson, author of Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District,  and Luc Cadet, founder of Abantu Audio, an audiobook platform that features and produces literature  from Black, Brown, and Indigenous authors.

https://www.abantuaudio.com
https://www.hannibalbjohnson.com/books/

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In this episode of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black book discussions, Dr. Maurice J.Hobson, talks about his book The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta. For those of us not from or living in one of the few Black Meccas in the United States, we hope this discussion will encourage us to think critically about creating our own.

For more information about Dr. Maurice J. Hobson:
https://aas.gsu.edu/profile/maurice-j-hobson/
Instagram @drmohob
Twitter @DrMoHob

This episode was sponsored by TK Realty Solutions.
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In this inaugural episode of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black book discussions Dr. Peniel Joseph, author of The Sword and The Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.  exclaims that for once we don’t have to settled for lesser of two evils, we can have the cake and eat it,  we can get the best of both, we can have the Radical Malcom and the Radical Martin, We can have both the Sword and The Shield.

For more information about Dr. Peniel Joseph:
https://lbj.utexas.edu/joseph-peniel
https://csrd.lbj.utexas.edu/
@PenielJoseph

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