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The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, [2] was the aerial bombing and destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during an armed standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization.
The Black Panthers adopted a womanist ideology responding to the unique experiences of African-American women, [175] emphasizing racism as more oppressive than sexism. [176] Womanism was a mix of black nationalism and the vindication of women, [ 175 ] : 20 putting race and community struggle before the gender issue.
By 1967, the SNCC began to fall apart due to policy disputes in its leadership, and many members left for the Black Panthers. [23] Throughout 1967, the Panthers staged rallies and disrupted the California State Assembly with armed marchers. [24] In 1956 the FBI developed COINTELPRO to investigate Black nationalist groups and others.
The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was an underground Marxist–Leninist, black-nationalist militant organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981. Composed of former Black Panthers (BPP) [2] and Republic of New Afrika (RNA) members who served above ground before going underground, the organization's program was one of war against the United States government, and its stated ...
During its peak, the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast for Children program served full breakfasts (eggs, bacon, grits, toast, milk) to 20,000 kids in 19 cities every school day.
In US cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre in the early 1970s, consequent to the combined cultural momentum of the Black civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Black Panther Party, political and sociological circumstances that facilitated Black artists reclaiming their power of the Representation of the Black ...
America responded to the 1980s crack epidemic with police and prisons instead of public health. Now look where we are.
On the bright side, the upstart computer industry flourished during the 1980s. The U.S. balance of trade grew increasingly unfavorable; the trade deficit grew from $20 billion to well over $100 billion. Thus, American industries such as automobiles and steel, faced renewed competition abroad and within the domestic market as well. The auto ...