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Dream Defenders protest sentencing of Marissa Alexander
BY Staff | Jacksonville, FL | 5/13/12
On May 11, students from the civil rights group Dream Defenders protested at the sentencing hearing of Marissa Alexander, a young black woman who was convicted of aggravated assault stemming from an episode in 2010 where she fired a warning shot at her abusive ex-husband Rico Gray, who had previously beaten her.
Black Liberation Movement, Dream Defenders, Marissa Alexander, Racism
Occupy the Hood-Milwaukee launches Urban Community Based Physical Training program
BY Chance Zombor | Milwaukee, WI | 4/08/12
Occupy the Hood, Milwaukee began a new program they call “Urban Community Based Physical Training.”
Black Liberation Movement, Exercising, Occupy the Hood
HK on J Protest Draws Thousands
BY Kosta Harlan | Raleigh, NC | 2/22/09
Over 4000 people, the majority African American, marched in downtown Raleigh, Feb. 14, in a show of force organized by the North Carolina NAACP.
Black Liberation Movement, Budget crisis, capitalist crisis, HK on J, NAACP
Black Radical Congress Founded in Chicago Convention
BY Staff | Chicago, IL | 10/30/98
On June 19-21, the founding convention of the Black Radical Congress (B.R.C.) was held in Chicago. Nearly 2000 people came together to exchange experience, and to discuss strategy on how to build the Black Liberation Movement.
B.R.C., Black Liberation Movement, Black Radical Congress, Chicago Convention, Deb Howze, Derrick Parker, Interview, Jeanette Bobo, LIPOP, Low Income People Organizing for Power poor, Welfare Rights Committee, WRC
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