Black Power at 50

This conversation examines several dimensions of Black Power then and now. Jamala Rogers explains Black Power as a protracted struggle against Police Brutality and Killer Cops from Newark in 1967 to Ferguson in the present. With photography, Mark Speltz presents a visual history of the Black freedom struggle in the Jim Crow North. Stephen Ward explores the revolutionary love between James and Grace Lee Boggs at the center of Detroit’s Black Radicalism. Komozi Woodard presents Black Power and the Bandung West from Malcolm X and the Black Arts Movement to Yuri Kochiyama and the Young Lords.