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Tag: Civil Rights Movement

INTERVIEW: BLACK PANTHER PARTY LEADER ERICKA HUGGINS ON THE HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT AND HER NEW BOOK “COMRADE SISTERS” WITH STEPHEN SHAMES

The historic Black Panther Party, originally the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, is one of the most spoken about organizations of the civil rights movements, remembered even decades after its founding in 1966. Speaker, writer, educator, and former leader of the party Ericka Huggins dedicated much of her life to the party and continues…

10 BLACK AMERICAN LEADERS OUR TEXTBOOKS SHOULD SHINE MORE LIGHT ON

It is impossible to understate the lasting influence of historic Black American leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Boise, and more recent voices like Barack and Michelle Obama. But the history of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as countless aspects of general American culture…

THE ART OF CONTROVERSY: EMMETT TILL @ THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL

The artist roster of the  2017 Whitney Biennial is one of the most ethnically diverse in the event’s history (or really in the history of any biennial at a major art institution) but it is a painting by a white woman that is receiving the most attention in the show and has quickly become the…

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