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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 ...
Over the 1980s the black power movement continued despite a decline in its popularity and organization memberships. The Black Liberation Army was active in the US until at least 1981 when a Brinks truck robbery, conducted with support from former Weather Underground members Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, left a guard and two police officers dead.
Wahad discussing black liberation and politics with Jill Stein and Cornel West in 2024 On August 19, 2015, Bin Wahad and an associate were assaulted by a faction of the New Black Panther Party . Bin Wahad had been attending a conference in Atlanta , Georgia held by the Nzinga faction of the "New" Panthers, where Bin Wahad confronted the group ...
Kuwasi Balagoon (December 22, 1946–December 13, 1986), born Donald Weems, was an American political activist, anarchist and member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. Radicalized by race riots in his home state of Maryland growing up, as well as by his experiences while serving in the US Army, Weems became the black ...
Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams; August 8, 1950 – July 7, 2023) was an African American activist, and a member of the Black Liberation Army who was sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which a guard and two police officers were murdered.
Black Panther Party (1969–1970) Black United Liberation Front (1970–1978) , Black Power Movement, Black Liberation Movement Richard Reginald Schell (July 6, 1941 – May 9, 2012), better known as Captain Reggie Schell , was an American political activist [ 1 ] who was a member of the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party from ...
The African Blood Brotherhood for African Liberation and Redemption (ABB) was a U.S. black liberation organization established in 1919 in New York City by journalist Cyril Briggs. The group was established as a propaganda organization built on the model of the secret society .
African-Americans (and others sympathetic to abolitionism and civil rights) have made significant contributions to socialist literature. W. E. B. Du Bois wrote Black Reconstruction in America challenging the Dunning School, who had dominated American historiography of the reconstruction period with a conservative viewpoint that, he argued, paid scant attention to African-American contributions ...