Blacks in Race Defense: Killers and Cutthroats

Blacks in Race Defense: Killers and Cutthroats in poetry highlights particular Black people who fought physically against the White enemies who sought to either enslave African and African descended people and in the modern era Blacks who physically fought to halt historical and contemporary police killings of Black people. In poetry and brief essays this subject matter is grounded in reference works for further reading, yet creatively rendered providing poetic narratives reflecting and presenting the lives of each person. In poetry, we discover the inner world of each warrior, male and female, and how their particular time period shaped how they thought, how they lived and why they took up arms against state sponsored killers.

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Poetry and the Black Panther Party: from Ancestral Memory, Morphogenetic Fields to Hip Hop

Poetry and the Black Panther Party brings to life the poetry printed in the Black Panther newspaper and the poetry performed by Black Panther leaders. This book is unique because no scholar has addressed or explicated the ongoing poetry printed in the editions of the Black Panther newspaper from its inception to its end. Featuring poetry from 1967 to the 1980s, the Black Panther newspaper demonstrates how much the Panthers and the Black nation in America value the art of word play.

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Panther Poems: Poetry of a Sister Panther

“Panther Poems” is based on Regina Jennings’ personal experience in the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Through the eyes of a teenager and runaway, we get the reflections of youth in a mature unblemished voice that speaks an honesty that brings alive the electricity of the 1960s, that changed the world in music, culture, and politics. Some of the poems are sketches, almost short, short stories and others are nuggets, containing a blend of immediate vibrancy, dreamy in content.

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Comrade Sisters

Many of us have heard these three words: Black Panther Party. Some know the Party’s history as a movement for the social, political, economic and spiritual upliftment of Black and indigenous people of color – but to this day, few know the story of the backbone of the Party: the women.

It’s estimated that six out of ten Panther Party members were women. While these remarkable women of all ages and diverse backgrounds were regularly making headlines agitating, protesting, and organizing, off-stage these same women were building communities and enacting social justice, providing food, housing, education, healthcare, and more. Comrade Sisters is their story.

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Malcolm X and the Poetics of Haki Madhubuti

Illustrating the power of 1960s oratory and its successful merging with the art of that era, this Internationally Award winning text examines the significance of Malcolm X as a literary muse for Haki Madhubuti, an independent publisher, poet and essayist. Long after Malcolm’s assassination, Haki Madhubuti continued to expound in poetry and essays X’s major oratorical themes, including X’s effort to destroy the racial appellation “Negro” and in its place create new racial signifiers for people of African descent. X’s persistence in oratory during the 1960s influenced the Black Arts Movement that positively changed both the psychology and behavior of American Blacks from neo-dependency on Whites to urgent Black autonomy.

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Blacks in Race Defense: Killers and Cutthroats

Blacks in Race Defense: Killers and Cutthroats in poetry highlights particular Black people who fought physically against the White enemies who sought to either enslave African and African descended people and in the modern era Blacks who physically fought to halt historical and contemporary police killings of Black people. In poetry and brief essays this subject matter is grounded in reference works for further reading, yet creatively rendered providing poetic narratives reflecting and presenting the lives of each person. In poetry, we discover the inner world of each warrior, male and female, and how their particular time period shaped how they thought, how they lived and why they took up arms against state sponsored killers.

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