The black power movement proved a relatively short-lived surge of black militancy, but it had far reaching consequences. The movement acted as a catalyst to speed many of the changes promised by ...

Mark Whitaker on the Black power movement 02:56. It began on a hot summer night in Mississippi, with a cry from a young Black activist named Stokely Carmichael.

Overnight, the Black Power Movement was born. As Black History Month begins, we are witnessing a resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests and calls for police and other reforms in the wake of the ...

As far back as I can remember, I have been fascinated by what has been called the “Black Power” movement. As a young boy in the 1980s, I sat mesmerized before public-television documentaries ...

Journalist Mark Whitaker's latest book explores the year 1966 as a turning point in the march for civil rights and the growth of calls for Black self-determination.

A deep, abiding love of early-1970s rhythm and blues led to the making of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, one of the most powerful, intriguing and ...

The Black Power movement thrived in D.C. and transformed the city’s politics from the late 1960s to the 1990s. But its veterans worry that era is all but forgotten. Historian George Derek ...

Peniel Joseph, a scholar of African-American history, joins Here & Now's Robin Young to talk about how Black Lives Matter compares to the civil rights and Black Power movements.

Taken in 1968, the image would become one of the defining symbols of Black Power – a cultural and political movement in the late ’60s and early ‘70s that emphasized Black pride and self ...

Black Lives Matter Movement Is Fracturing As It Grows In Power NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Maya King of Politico about growing dissension within Black Lives Matter as the movement centralizes ...