Tag Archives: Black Power

Roz Payne

Posted on June 27, 2019 by

“Roz Payne was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and grew up in a political household. Her mom, Edith Berkman, was of Jewish and Polish descent and a Communist labor organizer. She was arrested during the Lawrence, Massachusetts, textile strike in … Continue reading →

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Debating the Working Class 50 Years Ago in SDS: Lessons for Today?

Posted on June 25, 2019 by

“Fifty years ago in August 1966 delegates from across the United States attended the annual Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Convention in Clear Lake, Iowa. Located in north central Iowa and held at a local Methodist camp, it provided … Continue reading →

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The Night the Ali-Liston Fight Came to Lewiston

Posted on June 14, 2019 by

The heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stood over Sonny Liston in the first round of their title fight in Lewiston, Me., on May 25, 1965, and was heard to say, “Get up and fight, sucker!” “LEWISTON, Me. — A couple of … Continue reading →

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Blood and Echoes: The Story of Come Out, Steve Reich’s Civil Rights Era Masterpiece

Posted on June 12, 2019 by

“On a spring day in 1964, police in Harlem’s 32nd precinct tried to beat a confession out of two black teenagers for a crime they did not commit. The young men, Wallace Baker and Daniel Hamm, were repeatedly bludgeoned with … Continue reading →

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Year of the Mad Bomber

Posted on May 19, 2019 by

“Throughout much of 1968, Sam Melville, an unemployed 34-year-old with an estranged wife and 5-year-old son, frequently sat at his desk in a squalid apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, contemplating how he could destroy America. Smoking a … Continue reading →

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A Black Panther Guide To Algiers

Posted on May 12, 2019 by

August 9, 1969 Black Panther Community News Service cover. “For a brief spell in the early 1970s, global revolutionaries flocked to Algiers much in the same way that galactic freighter pilots descended on Mos Eisley. They came at the behest … Continue reading →

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At Columbia, Revisiting the Revolutionary Students of 1968

Posted on May 6, 2019 by

Strikers on the ledge of Mathematics Hall, one of five buildings at Columbia University that students took over in April 1968. “The campus of Columbia University is dotted with monuments to illustrious alumni and high-minded ideals. But on a sunny … Continue reading →

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