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11/17/2023

Food deserts and food insecurity?

In this book, Ashante M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents' navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems. Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese examines the....

08/09/2021

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (Justice, Power, and Politics)
Ashley D. Farmer
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In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines Black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated Black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about Black womanhood. This compelling book shows how the new tropes of womanhood that they created--the "Militant Black Domestic," the "Revolutionary Black Woman," and the "Third World Woman," for instance--spurred debate among activists over the importance of women and gender to Black Power organizing, causing many of the era's organizations and leaders to critique patriarchy and support gender equality.

Making use of a vast and untapped array of Black women's artwork, political cartoons, manifestos, and political essays that they produced as members of groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Congress of African People, Farmer reveals how Black women activists reimagined Black womanhood, challenged sexism, and redefined the meaning of race, gender, and identity in American life.
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08/04/2021

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Powerful words: , powerful art: .pack 🦋

This is part of an incredible project in West Oakland honoring the Women of the Black Panther Party. See the full mural and read more on .pack ’s page.

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ID: Quote from Ericka Huggins reads “Love is an expression of power we can use to transform our world,” written in black bold font on top of blue wooden panels.

07/10/2021

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.

07/03/2021

Afrikan People and European Holidays: A Mental Genocide (Book 1)
Ishakamusa Barashango
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07/01/2021

“To ‘manufacture consent’ is to create a system in which citizens become willing and obedient, consenting and unquestioning, obeying certain principles and paradigms, all by way of corporate-sponsored propaganda through mass media and commercialism, as opposed to obedience achieved through strongman tactics. It derives its name from the book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Hermanand Noam Chomsky…” —Ed Ferrusquia
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06/06/2021

Maurice Bishop returned to Grenada in 1970 as the Black Power movement was gaining popularity in the Caribbean. He founded a law practice in St. George’s and became involved in left wing movements supporting the current revolution in neighboring Trinidad and opposing the current autocratic Grenadian government of Eric Gairy, often invoking violent retaliation from Gairy’s security force. In 1972 he organized the Movement for Assemblies of the People (MAP), which merged with the Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education and Liberation (JEWEL) in 1973 to become the New JEWEL Movement (NJM). The NJM proclaimed independence for Grenada in 1974.

Source: Caribbean Insight TV (YouTube)

04/26/2021

Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children.
Jawanza Kunjufu
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“An excellent read and a must have for all African-American families. The book guides parents and others in our community on ways to navigate through a system that is not geared for the positive growth and development of our children. It gives us positive ways to overcome this system without condemning the system itself. Dr. Kunjufu is to be congratulated for producing another valuable tool for African-American families.”
—unknown reviewer
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04/24/2021

Groupthink.

04/07/2021

Repost • “Returning to our original vision, which is to serve the people and to move the masses of our people; Black, and other oppressed people inside of this country to the point of total liberation...The point is for the struggle to be raised between oppressed people and the oppressor.”

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03/09/2021

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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Set far in the future, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World depicts a world where "Controllers" have achieved what they believe to be the ideal society. Through scientific and genetic breakthroughs the human race has been brought to perfection: humans have pre-assigned roles in society, and everyone happily fulfills their purpose. Bernard Marx, however, is different. He is disgusted by the predestined behavior of his peers and has a strong desire to break free from social pressures, leading him to set off on a journey to visit one of the few remaining Savage Reservations--places where the old, flawed, and imperfect life still continues.
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