We’re gonna take a look at the moment the Black Power movement was born, in 1966 on a hot summer day in Greenwood, Mississippi, in order to get a sense of the forces that intersected at that moment amid tensions within the Civil Rights Movement. The reason we’re starting here is to set the stage for understanding the Civil Rights Movements response to Black Power, in order to better appreciate the sociopolitical context in which the Gary Project arose.

Partial list of works consulted: 

Down to the crossroads: Civil Rights, Black power, and the Meredith March Against Fear by Aram Goudsouzian 

In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s by Clayborne Carson

Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour by Peniel Joseph

Stokely: A Life by Peniel Joseph

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–1968 by Taylor Branch

Bloody Lowndes: Civil RIghts and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt by Hasan Jefferies

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We’re gonna get introduced to a podcast series on the National Black Political Convention of 1972, and make the case for this neglected historical moment as a turning point in Black American social and political history that we must understand, in-depth, to re-invigorate the Black American Freedom Struggle and bring Black American life out of the malaise and hollow symbolism that as held us hostage for half a century since this project was defeated.

Partial Works consulted: 

The Defeat of Black Power by Leonard N. Moore

A Nation Within a Nation by Komozi Woodard

Revolutionaries to Race Leaders by Cedric Johnson

Race Reform and Rebellion by Manning Marable

Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour by Peniel Joseph

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We're gonna take a look at Dr. King's analysis of Black Power in his final book "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?"

We take a look at the NAACP's immediate response to the "Black Power" moment in Mississippi in order to reveal important elements of how the non-profit-industrial complex and the Black freedom struggle intersected during the Civil Rights/Black Power Era and how they intersect now.

We’re gonna take a look at the moment the Black Power movement was born, in 1966 on a hot summer day in Greenwood, Mississippi, in order to get a sense of the forces that intersected at that moment amid tensions within the Civil Rights Movement.

We’re gonna get introduced to a podcast series on the National Black Political Convention of 1972 in Gary, Indiana. to make the case for this neglected historical moment as a turning point in Black American social and political history that we must understand, in-depth, to re-invigorate the Black American Freedom Struggle and bring Black American life out of the malaise and hollow symbolism that has held us hostage for half a century.

Part three of a three part review of Charles Blow's "The Devil You Know."

Part 2 of a three part review of "The Devil You Know,"

The beginning of a three part review of Charles Blow's "The Devil You Know."

We continue looking at how our system of economics undermines political life under the state and thinking through what a fix for that would look like.