- Albert Woodfox, Gary Tyler
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Albert Woodfox, Gary Tyler - two examples among many of what the racist and bureaucratic "carceral state" in America is about.
- Black Guerrilla Family
Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article The Black Guerilla Family (also known as the Black Family or the Black Vanguard) is a prison and street gang founded in 1966 by George Jackson and W.L. Nolen while they were incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco. Inspired by Marcus Garvey, the Black Guerilla Family was characterized as an ideologically based African-American Marxist revolutionary organization composed of prisoners. It was founded with the stated goals of eradicating racism, maintaining dignity in prison, and overthrowing the United States government. BGF was associated with a number of leftist groups, including the Black Liberation Army, Symbionese Liberation Army, and Weather underground.
- The Black Infinity Complex
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 We're a group of UCLA grad students, and our vision of the Black Infinity Complex is inspired by the boundlessness and sustainability of Black creativity and imagination. It's a collective of organizers coming together as a liaison to create a united front of existing structures of grassroots organizations and community institutions, and organizers like you, or scholars.
- Black Panther Party
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article African-American organization established to promote Black Power.
- BLM: A Movement and Its Critics
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Recent studies, once again, show that being Black makes life more difficult than for those with white skin. It is more difficult to get good paying jobs, education and housing (even for those with equal or better qualifications than whites). Blacks pay more for loans than whites, even if they have higher incomes.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Could urban farming provide a much-needed oasis in the Tulsa food desert?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Oklahoma is one of the most food insecure states in the US, where families struggle to buy enough healthy food. Locals are trying to ease poverty with community farming, but face difficulty in a city with a complex racial history
- The Freedom Archives
Resource Type: Unclassified The Freedom Archives contains over 10,000 hours of audio and video tapes as well as extensive documents. These materials date from the late-60s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international solidarity movements.
- From Ferguson to Baltimore
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Combined with racial profiling, combined with the practice of predatory profiling and predatory policing, police departments are using parking and traffic tickets as a revenue base to increase their budget. All these bring us to a place where police violence is rampant. The more contacts you have with the police, the more possibilities you have of being subject to a violent interaction.
- The leaders of the American Womens March have spoken: Jews are unwelcome on the feminist left
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Columnist Emma Teitel draws attention to the problematic relationship between US Women's March organizers and antisemetic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
- League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article
- Left Out History - review
Against The Current vol. 162 Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 A review of 'Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power' by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy.
- The Long Sad Slide From Leading Civil Rights Organization to Anti-Black Lives Matter Group
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 When you place someone on the seat of power, it can corrupt them.
- The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132 Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honeys Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther Kings Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
- Moral Appeals Aren't Enough
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The wonderful thing about Black Lives Matter is that they're saying you cannot use moral suasion to win this. You've got to disrupt, and make sure that things don't work in order to make the demand for change.
- The Movement Has a History
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 I was born in the '70s in East Oakland. All of our parents are Panthers, or Black Power organizers, or organizers. We come out politicized.
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 1 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- Randolph, A. Philip
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article African-American civil rights leader. (1889-1979).
- The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party
A Revolutionary Marxist Analysis Resource Type: Article Published: 1993 A talk recounting the beginnings and tragic end of the Black Panther Power, a radical black power movement and political organization.
- Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatter
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 I turned away more than once while watching Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. I averted my eyes from the screen when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's nefarious mug first appeared. I turned away once more when the charismatic and admirable Fred Hampton was first shown, knowing that eventually he would be murdered by Chicago police and federal agents.
- SDS
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
- SNCC
The New Abolitionists Resource Type: Book Published: 1965 An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- The Socialism of the Black Panthers
A new documentary on the Black Panther Party overlooks the group's socialist core. Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 An analysis on the documentary on the Black Panther Party, "Up From Liberalism".
- Some Facts About BRIC
Resource Type: Article Published: 1977 A pamphlet that gives an overview of the effort undertaken to provide Media, Legal and Leadership Training Services to the Black community in Ontario by the Black Resources Information Centre.
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
- Why Black Lives Matter Is Game Change
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The Cleveland Black Lives Matter Convening was a "game changer" because it made clear the Movement is long term. Whether its next step will add a call for a break with the two-party system, time and struggle will tell.
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