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HISTORICAL FACTS: Black power - Caught on Camera

'Blue Power' and the Rise of Police Union Politics

Stuart Schrader's new book details how police unions became a dominant force in U.S. politics.

Reason

Portrayals of Islam and people of color dominate discussion in Texas’ social studies rewrite

The State Board of Education approved an early draft of social studies changes, setting up a vote in June that will determine how students learn history over the next decade.

The Texas Tribune

White and Black activists worked strategically in parallel in Detroit 50 years ago, fighting for civil rights

Since the murder of George Floyd in 2020, some white people have been wondering how they can work with Black people to fight racial inequality.

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Black church leaders brought religion to politics in the ‘60s – but it was dramatically different from today’s white Christian nationalism

Fifty-eight years ago in the summer of 1966, a group of Black church leaders took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times titled “Black Power.” Their densely worded statement called on national leaders, “white churchmen,” Black citizens and the mass media to correct the country’s racial power imbalance.…

The Conversation

A half-century later, students at the University of Mississippi reckon with the past

University of Mississippi students meet members of the school's Black Student Union from 1970. They were jailed and expelled from Ole Miss for protesting token integration.

WEKU

Lawyers for Malcolm X’s family reveal ‘explosive’ witness and video bolstering assassination conspiracy claims

Malcolm X was a pivotal figure in the struggle for Black civil rights and the nascent Black Power movement

The Independent UK

First Thing: Monkeypox fatality confirmed in Los Angeles

The death is the first in the state and possibly in the country, with the individual being immunocompromised and hospitalized. Plus, who won big at the Emmys

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Revealed: how UK targeted American civil rights leader in covert campaign

Secret Foreign Office unit distributed literature from fake sources to discredit Stokely Carmichael

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