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During the peak of the Black power movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many African Americans adopted "Afro" hairstyles, African clothes, or African names (such as Stokely Carmichael, the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who popularized the phrase "Black power" and later changed his name to Kwame Ture) to ...
African American youth protested following victories in the courts regarding civil rights with street protests led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, and the NAACP. [24] King and Bevel skillfully used the media to record instances of brutality against non-violent African American protesters to tug at the conscience of the public.
What It Was!; The Black Film Explosion of the '70s in Words and Pictures by Andres Chavez, Denise Chavez, Gerald Martinez ISBN 0-7868-8377-4 "The So Called Fall of Blaxploitation" by Ed Guerrero, The Velvet Light Trap #64 Fall 2009; Wright (2014). "Black Outlaws and the Struggle for Empowerment in Blaxploitation Cinema". Spectrum: A Journal on ...
An African American teenager, Eugene Williams, who was swimming in Lake Michigan drifted near a beach that whites considered their own. A white man on a breakwater assailed the black youth with stones and the youth drowned. The white Chicago police officers who investigated the incident refused to arrest the assailant. The tension escalated ...
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
America responded to the 1980s crack epidemic with police and prisons instead of public health. Now look where we are.
For a black American who lived during the era of U.S. slavery, no rights were guaranteed, whether they were personally enslaved or not. [11] In the United States a slave's life expectancy was 21 to 22 years, and a black child through the age of 1 to 14 had twice the risk of dying of a white child of the same age.
The 2001 war film Black Hawk Down brought the deadly events of 1993’s Battle of Mogadishu to the big screen.. The Academy Award-winning film, which was directed by Ridley Scott and based on a ...