Tag Archives: Black Power

The Invention of Mid-Century Cool

Posted on February 13, 2020 by

“Between 1951, when Barney Rosset purchased it for $3000, and 1970, Grove Press became a veritable communications center for the counterculture, defined in many ways by the visual sensibility of legendary cover designer Roy Kuhlman. Rosset shared Kuhlman’s aesthetic taste—which … Continue reading →

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Uncovering the Truth About a Raid on the Black Panthers

Posted on January 11, 2020 by

“The call came in the early morning hours of December 4, 1969. ‘Come to the crib’ was the command. ‘The police have murdered Chairman Fred.’ I was a second-year law student at Northwestern Law School, working with a group of … Continue reading →

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Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers – Tom Wolfe (1970)

Posted on January 5, 2020 by

“Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a 1970 book by Tom Wolfe. The book, Wolfe’s fourth, is composed of two articles by Wolfe, ‘These Radical Chic Evenings’, first published in June 1970 in New York magazine, about a … Continue reading →

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Newsreel, Third World Newsreel and California Newsreel

Posted on December 28, 2019 by

TWN: El Pueblo se Levanta (Newsreel #63) The People Are Rising “Newsreel was a production and distribution company founded in 1967 in response to the political turmoil that surrounded the Vietnam war and the Civil Rights movement. Its mission was … Continue reading →

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Black Arts Movement

Posted on December 13, 2019 by

Amiri Baraka (center) and Yusef Iman (second from left) with musicians and actors of the black arts movement, Spirit House, Newark, New Jersey, 1966 “The Black Arts Movement (or BAM) was an African American-led art movement, active during the 1960s … Continue reading →

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The Panthers and the Patriots

Posted on December 4, 2019 by

The Black Panthers and Young Patriots hold a press conference in 1969. “In July 1969, the Black Panther Party convened a huge meeting in Oakland that attracted radical groups from across the country. They called it the Conference for a … Continue reading →

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Amiri Baraka – The Revolutionary Theater (1969)

Posted on November 23, 2019 by

“The writer and activist LeRoi Jones (who would later be known as Amiri Baraka) speaks here on February 17, 1965, four days before the assassination of Malcolm X, an event that catapulted him from a charismatic Greenwich Village maverick into … Continue reading →

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