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Black power movement

November 2023

  • The UN general assembly, with a board showing the votes of member states

    Jamaica was never afraid to stand on the side of justice – silence on Gaza shames us

    Kenneth Mohammed
    In not speaking out, the government has broken with a proud Caribbean history of condemning human rights violations

October 2023

  • Richard Roundtree at Toronto International film festival in 2022.

    Richard Roundtree: how Shaft’s ‘first Black action hero’ changed culture for ever

    With his smarts, swagger and unapologetic sexuality, Roundtree – who died on Tuesday aged 81 – spearheaded a new type of Black masculinity in mainstream cinema

September 2023

  • As a photographer, Horace Ové was a leading chronicler of the Black Power movement.

    Sir Horace Ové obituary

    Director who examined life in multicultural Britain in pioneering films such as Pressure, a defining work of black British cinema

July 2023

  • Colson Whitehead

    Book of the day
    Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead review – a dazzling sequel to Harlem Shuffle

    From bent cops to blaxploitation, this tale of corruption in 70s New York combines the energy of a crime thriller and the sharp wit of social satire

March 2023

  • Power to the People, 1969 Designer Unknown Poster House Permanent Collection

    Power to the people: the branding of the Black Panther party – in pictures

    As the civil rights movement grew, the Black Panthers become an influential and innovative activist group, focused on redressing systemic oppression

December 2022

  • CAPTION: Huey Newton at a press conference at the offices of his lawyer, Charles Garry, on August 5, 1970, the day he was released from jail after his manslaughter conviction was overturned by the California Court of Appeals. CREDIT: © 2022 Jeffrey Henson Scales/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Courtesy Claire Oliver Gallery

    In A Time of Panthers: Jeffrey Henson Scales photographs Black history

    An absorbing pictorial history of a key component of the Black Power movement shows its relevance has not receded today

October 2022

  • A protester holds up a poster depicting Mumia Abu-Jamal in Philadelphia.

    Black power behind bars
    Ex-Black Panther asks for fresh trial amid new evidence

    New evidence shows that the conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal – who has spent over 40 years in prison – was tainted, prompting calls for a re-examination

September 2022

  • Stokely Carmichael at an anti-Vietnam war rally at the United Nations in New York, circa 1967.

    Revealed: how UK targeted American civil rights leader in covert campaign

  • Kathleen Cleaver, communications secretary and the first female member of the Party’s central committee, with Black Panthers from Los Angeles at the Free Huey rally in West Oakland, 28 July 1968.

    Sisters of the revolution: the women of the Black Panther party

July 2022

  • A demonstrator looks at a riot policeman during a protest marking the country's 1973 military coup in Santiago, Chile September 11, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Vera FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    ‘It felt like history itself’ – 48 protest photographs that changed the world

    Protest can change everything. Which is why governments around the world want to suppress it. In a week when thousands in the US expressed their fury over Roe v Wade, we look back at some of the images that helped rewrite laws and change the way we think

May 2022

  • Members of the Black Panther party received extremely long sentences; at least 11 members are still in prison.

    Former Black Panther Sundiata Acoli to be released from prison after 49 years

    The oldest imprisoned Panther was eligible for parole 29 years ago but was repeatedly denied in spite of ‘exemplary’ prison record

July 2021

  • Rapso artist Brother Resistance (left) greets a parade participant during the annual Emancipation Day heritage festival on August 1, 2014 in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

    Rapso: discover the pride and power of Trinidad’s rap-soca music

    The striking vocalist Brother Resistance, who died this month, helmed a politically astute hybrid of rap and soca that opened new possibilities in Caribbean music

April 2021

  • Daniel Kaluuya in Judas and the Black Messiah.

    Daniel Kaluuya wins best supporting actor Oscar for Judas and the Black Messiah

    The British actor has won the Academy Award for his portrayal of Black Panthers chairman Fred Hampton

March 2021

  • The activist Clive Phillips in Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

    TV review
    Black Power: A British Story of Resistance review – a tortuous fight for justice

    A coda to Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, George Amponsah’s documentary is a masterly history of a multifaceted and complex movement for racial equality
  • Photo of black protesters and police

    British black power: stars of BBC documentary reflect on UK activism

    As a new film on 60s and 70s black activism is released, its subjects discuss what progress, if any, has been made
  • Lakeith Stanfield, foreground, and Daniel Kaluuya in Judas and the Black Messiah.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Judas and the Black Messiah review – electric Black Panthers drama

    The true story of assassinated activist Fred Hampton is brought to vibrant life with never-better performances from Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield

January 2021

  • Steve McQueen speaking about his Small Axe series at the Rome Film Festival in October.

    Steve McQueen to produce BBC films on black power and UK schools scandal

  • Protesters out in force for the march that followed the New Cross fire, the Black People’s Day of Action, on 2 March 1981.

    Forty years on from the New Cross fire, what has changed for black Britons?

October 2020

  • Leila Hassan Howe photographed in London July 2020

    Black lives
    Leila Hassan Howe: ‘My life was made hell. You’d just hear a tirade against immigrants’

  • Steve McQueen

    Steve McQueen: ‘Our Marlon Brandos are on building sites, or driving buses’

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