![]() “Despite the media perception, women were always in Black Power leadership,” says Randolph, whose recent book Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical shines a light on the women who brought the lessons of Black Power to white feminism. ![]() Yet another similarity between the two movements is the crucial role played by black women. Such demonstrations draw a direct line to the Black Panthers in Sacramento in the late ’60s, who provocatively and openly carried legal weapons in public. Louis Symphony, interrupting presidential campaign rallies for Jeb Bush and Bernie Sanders, naked black women marching down a San Francisco street chanting “Say Her Name” in remembrance of the black women killed by police. She notes the “street theater” tactics employed by young civil rights protesters in the past two years: disrupting the St. “What they are doing to confront police violence is textbook Black Power,” says Sherie Randolph, associate professor of history and African American studies at the University of Michigan. The front line symbols of the current hydra of criminal justice - the police and their actions-have been a prime focus of Black Lives Matter and other new civil rights groups, just as law enforcement was targeted during the Black Power movement. ![]() “Criminal justice is the principal gateway to racism, it is connected to schools, jobs, the assault on voting rights, discrimination. “In a very real sense, those were the halcyon days comparing back then to now with the numbers (of blacks) in prison and the rate of mass incarceration,” Joseph explains. View Gallery: Closer look at Black Lives Matter protests ![]()
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