See also these Black Power related resources:
- Books About Black Power
- Black Panther Party Resources
- Black Liberation Army Resources.
- Malcolm X Resources
- Self Defense & Armed Resistance in the Black Freedom Struggle.
- The Lowndes County Freedom Movement.
- Black Studies and the Black Campus Movement.
- The Black Arts Movement.
Articles
African American Intellectual Historical Society: Rethinking H. Rap Brown and Black Power.
Richard D. Benson II: Black Power, Education, and the History of the Peoples College.
Peter Blackmer: The Possibilities of Black Power History in Newark.
Charles Blow: Charles Blow’s ‘The Devil You Know’ Is A Black Power Manifesto For Our Time.
Democracy Now!: Angela Davis: Aretha Franklin Offered to Post Bail for Me, Saying “Black People Will Be Free”.
DeNeen L. Brown: ‘A cry for freedom’: The Black Power salute that rocked the world 50 years ago. Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists during the 1968 Olympics.
Scot Ngozi-Brown: The Us Organization, Maulana Karenga, and Conflict with the Black Panther Party: A Critique of Sectarian Influences on Historical Discourse.
William Jelani Cobb:
- Evolution of an Activist. (On Carmichael).
- Cory Booker Never Spoke for Newark Like Amiri Baraka Did.
Code Switch (podcast):
- Stokely Carmichael, A Philosopher Behind The Black Power Movement.
- Is Beauty In The Eyes Of The Colonizer?
Peter Cole: Black Power Meets Pan-Africanism in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Joshua Clark Davis:
- The Women at the Heart of Black Power.
- Black Bookstores and the Black Power Movement: An Interview with Paul Coates.
- Black-Owned Bookstores: Anchors of the Black Power Movement.
- The FBI’s War on Black-Owned Bookstores: At the height of the Black Power movement, the Bureau focused on the unlikeliest of public enemies: black independent booksellers.
Marc Dollinger: Exploding Myths About ‘Black Power, Jewish Politics’.
Mohammed Elnaiem: On Black Power in the Pacific: How the meaning of Blackness, and the social construction of race, varies across era and region.
Ashley Farmer:
- Free Joan Little: Anti-rape Activism, Black Power, and the Black Freedom Movement.
- “The Power and Importance of Ideas:” Grace Lee Boggs’s Revolutionary Vision.
- Mae Mallory: Forgotten Black Power Intellectual.
- “Black People and the Victorian Ethos:” Respectability Politics, Black Organizing, and Black Power.
- Renegotiating the “African Woman”: Women’s Cultural Nationalist Theorizing in the Us Organization and the Congress of African People, 1965–1975.
- “African” Men and Women: Patriarchy and Pan-Africanism.
- What Would King Do? Learning from King’s Approach to Black Power.
- Black Power and Its Afterlives.
- See more from Ashley Farmer here and here.
Michael R. Fischbach:
- How the 1960s civil rights and black power movements split on Israel.
- Solidarity is no accident: a review of Michael Fischbach’s Black Power and Palestine. (Review by Bill V. Mullen).
Shennette Garrett-Scott: Garrett-Scott on Hill and Rabig, ‘The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America’.
Reena Goldthree: Prefiguring the African American “Postcolony”: Black Independent Schools and the Quest for Liberation.
Paul Hébert:
- Getting the Word Out: The Circulation of Black Power Newspapers.
- Abeng and Black Power in the West Indies.
Benjamin Hedin: From Selma to Black Power: Only a few miles away from where the legendary march began, a new phase of civil-rights activism gathered momentum.
Laura Warren Hill: Writing Women Into Black Power.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Black Lives Matter: A Legacy of Black Power Protest.
Tracey Johnson: Art for the People’s Sake: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement.
Peniel E. Joseph:
- ‘Black and proud:’ From Black Power to Black Lives Matter.
- Are We Overlooking The Black Power Behind Obama?
- How Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination changed America 50 years ago and still affects us today.
- When Civil-Rights Unity Fractured.
- Black Power and Stokely Carmichael. (Podcast appearance.)
Michael T. Kaufman: Stokely Carmichael, Rights Leader Who Coined ‘Black Power,’ Dies at 57.
Angela LeBlanc-Ernest: Black Power, Collectivism, and the Politics of the Imprisoned.
Felicia R. Lee: He Cried Out ‘Black Power,’ Then Left for Africa. (About Carmichael).
Keith Mayes: The Value Of Kwanzaa.
Keri Leigh Merritt: Aaron Alpeoria Bradley and Black Power during Reconstruction.
Jenise Miller: As If I was Carrying a Gun: Art and Surveillance in 1960s Watts.
Louis Moore: Black Fists, Black Pride, and the 1968 Summer Olympics.
George Derek Musgrove: Black Power in Washington D.C., 1961-1998. (Includes interactive timelines and maps.)
Mark Anthony Neal: 1968: Soul Music and the Year of Black Power.
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar: The Black Arts Movement Reprise: Television and Black Art in the 21st Century.
Edward Onaci: Black Power, Name Choices, and Self-Determination.
Mary Phillips: The Fearless Nature of Remaking Black Power.
Kerry Pimblott:
- Black Power and the Role of Faith.
- Religion and the Black Power Movement: 7 Questions for Kerry Pimblott.
James Smethurst:
- The Black Arts Movement and “A Nation Within a Nation”.
- ‘Pat your foot and turn the corner’: Amiri Baraka, the Black Arts Movement, and the poetics of a popular avant-garde.
- Dawnsong! The epic memory of Askia Toure.
- “Remembering When Indians Were Red”: Bob Kaufman, the Popular Front, and the Black Arts Movement.
Andrea M. Sterling & Jakobi Williams: Black Power and the Gendered Imaginary.
Quito Swan:
- Black Power’s Global Pulse.
- Black Power in Papua New Guinea.
- Blinded by Bandung? Illumining West Papua, Senegal, and the Black Pacific.
Akinyele Umoja: A Womanist Perspective of the Black Power Movement.
Dara Walker: Black Power and the Detroit High School Organizing Tradition.
Michael O. West: Nation Time: ‘A Nation Within A Nation’ At Twenty.
Derrick E. White: Pragmatic Black Nationalism.
Fanon Che Wilkins: ‘We Are An African People’ and the Dynamism of Black Power Studies.
Komozi Woodard: Making ‘A Nation Within A Nation’: An Interview with Komozi Woodard.