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from the unrestrained elements within their own group. The result has been a tendency to be their own protectors, to bulwark themselves against careless and deliberate aggression. The Negro has felt, with some justification, that the peace officer of the community provides no defense against the offending or offensive white man; and for an entirely
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
was at the Lord's Table but whether he was really present at the slave's cabin, whether slaves could expect Jesus to be with them as they tried to survive the cotton field, the whip, and the pistol.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
People v. Davis
investigative squad, Freaky-D swore that he had owned
Michael Harriot • Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
the papers of the Southern Conference Education Fund, is my mother talking in 1974 about the indigenous prison struggle, meaning Black Southerners recognizing that locking people up was a tool of social control.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
I am called Jim. I have yet to choose a name. In the religious preachings of my white captors I am a victim of the Curse of Ham. The white so-called masters cannot embrace their cruelty and greed, but must look to that lying Dominican friar for religious justification. But I will not let this condition define me. I will not let myself, my mind, dro
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