First scholarly series exploring Black Power & Black radicalism in the most expansive sense. Published @NYUPress. Series Editors: @ibramxk & @drashleyfarmer
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Mon, 5/11 | 7 PM | #SchomburgCenter: The National Black Theatre will present a special one-day event featuring six multidisciplinary micro-commissions that uplift the voices and legacies of Black women theatermakers in our collections. #Schomburg100
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ALT Collage of six black-and-white portraits of African American women from different eras, promoting the Hidden Figures Recentered event. The day, date, and time are listed.
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#SNCC poetry was power!! ✊🏾
Check out some of our favorites by:
1. Visiting CRMVET.org
2. Searching the titles
3. Then READ & get INSPIRED
Comment or DM us your favorite Movement Poems!
#NationalPoetryMonth #MovementHistory #artandculture
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A history by late great Darcus Howe of the interaction of Black people and the state on the streets of Britain.
Originally published in 1988, it provides the context to the urban rebellions following the Brixton Uprising of 1981. ❤️💚🖤
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Apr 8
On this day, April 8, 1968, just days after my father’s assassination and the day before his funeral, my mother returned to Memphis to continue the work.
My mother was a woman of tremendous strength. In the midst of unimaginable grief, she went back to the very place where he was taken from us and led the Memorial March with sanitation workers.
She did not allow sorrow to silence her. She moved forward with courage, conviction, and an unwavering commitment to justice.
With my siblings by her side, she led that march not only in honor of my father, but in solidarity with workers fighting for dignity and fair treatment.
She showed the world that the work was bigger than any one person, and that love, discipline, and purpose must carry us forward, even in our most painful moments.
#MLK #CorettaScottKing #BelovedCommunity #Nonviolence365
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Apr 11
“Black Power hit, and all of us who were at white schools were forming Black student organizations, reading Fanon and Stokely Carmichael, and growing Afros for the first time.” —Margo Jefferson buff.ly/HrVNxKt
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Mar 4
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now whatimreading.net/p/black-ow…
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Listen in to Ashon Crawley discuss his work on religion, sound, and cultural studies in a Black Studies context. Amazing stuff, here and at most streaming services: go.umd.edu/AshonCrawley
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Feb 22
Everyone should know about #JoanneBland.
Feb 21
Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72.
"By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times” wvtm13.com/article/joanne-bl…
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In 1927, the United States deported one of the most influential figures in Black American #history. His name was Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a Jamaican #immigrant whose vision of Black economic independence and global unity awakened millions. Garvey was not deported because he posed a
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We commemorate the life of human rights activist #MalcolmX. In these photos, his daughter, Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz, recently spoke with students in our Junior Scholars Program. #SchomburgCenter #Harlem
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ALT Five people are seated in club chairs on stage at the Schomburg Center in a panel discussion. Photo: Marshall Wayne Cooper
ALT Young person holding a sketchbook with with a drawing of Malcolm X. He standing next to Dr. Ilyasha Shabazz. The two are posing for a photo. Photo: Marshall Wayne Cooper
ALT Young woman is standing in an auditorium holding a microphone during a discussion or Q&A session. Photo: Marshall Wayne Cooper
ALT Five people are seated on stage at the Schomburg Center. They are clapping during a panel discussion. Photo: Lisa Herndon
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Feb 14
The longest-running Black-owned family newspaper and the third-oldest Black-owned business in the U.S today, The Baltimore Afro American's beginnings in the aftermath of Reconstruction—and its staying power—are almost impossible to wrap one’s head around.
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Join us on February 27 at 10 AM for BLACK STUDIES IS FOR EVERYONE, a daylong gathering of writers, journalists, scholars, and activists. buff.ly/VuapaHK
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Feb 8
#BlackHistoryMonth Day 7 Book 7: “At the Vanguard,” the companion volume to the new exhibit at @NMAAHC . If you can get to DC, spend some time there thinking how we preserve memory in our Black teaching and learning spaces. Either way, pick up the book and be inspired.
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“Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art,” now open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, features 30 LGBTQ artists and nearly 60 artworks from across Africa and its diasporas, highlighting photography, painting, tapestry, collage, sculpture and more. bit.ly/4qTPcUf
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Feb 1
#BlackHistoryMonth Day 1, Book 1: Woodson’s “Miseducation of the Negro.” Straight. Sacrifice. Self Determination. Solidarity. From the man himself.
2026 is 20th anniversary of Philly’s mandatory HS AfAm course. Here’s why we centered it with Woodson: youtu.be/W0b-LgUBLh4?si=dnGH…
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✨Registration is Now Open for #AAIHS2026!
March 27-28, 2026
Pittsburgh, PA
Theme: Preserving Histories and Legacies in the 21st Century
aaihs.org/aaihs-2026-registr…
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Jan 11
It’s the last day for the “Photography and the Black Arts Movement” exhibit at the National Gallery of Art and check out this line 😳
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26 Dec 2025
Habari Gani? Umoja! Today is the 1st day of #Kwanzaa, a 7-day African American and Pan-African holiday founded in 1966 that celebrates history, values, family, community, and culture. Join our museum's virtual Kwanzaa celebration: nmaahc.si.edu/kwanzaa #APeoplesJourney
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20 Dec 2025
Sixty-nine years ago today, the Montgomery Bus Boycott ended—but its legacy endures.
It remains a masterclass in disciplined, strategic, nonviolent action, reminding us that real change requires collective sacrifice, clarity, and moral courage.
#MontgomeryBusBoycott #Nonviolence365 #BelovedCommunity #MLK
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20 Dec 2025
RT @MelanatedTalk: There’s powerful exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. It’s called “Photography and the Black Arts M…
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