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Religion and the Black Power Movement: 7 Questions for Kerry Pimblott

February 02, 2018 Leave a Comment

Kerry Pimblott When I talked with Illinois-based scholars and activists about Black Power they would often mention Reverend Charles Koen and the United Front organization of Cairo, Illinois, as an important but forgotten local struggle.

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Political Realignment in Terror-Times

August 04, 2016 1 Comment

Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. Assassination as a form of politics is a terrifying and recurrent aspect of American life.

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Reclaiming The Radical Socialist, Martin Luther King Jr.

January 19, 2016 Leave a Comment

Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. “This book unearths a radical King that we can no longer sanitize.” The King West portrays here was “anti-imperial, anti-colonial, anti-racist, and [a] democratic socialist,” but he was also courageous in every sense of that term, even and especially in the face of death. “Could it be,” West asks, “that we know so little of the radical King because such courage defies our market-driven world?” 

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