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Black Studies and Black Liberation

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Black Studies and Black Liberation

This informational blog focuses on Black Studies resources that have played ab important role in the

Black liberation struggle.

Note: This informational blog is compiled by and reprinted with permission by Abdul Alkalimat, PhD

Langston Hughes at UCLA 1967 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px5hwNCs9ss

Harlem and Columbia University Strike, Bill Sales https://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/25/forty_years_after_historic_columbia_strike

Alabama by John Coltrane Quartet https://musicaficionado.blog/2016/04/14/alabama-by-john-coltrane/

Merritt College and the Black Panther Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54wYflGYMrw

Amiri Baraka: Revolutionary Poet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7uCm6bT6Os&feature=emb_title

Jacob Lawrence and Black History as Art https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1495

Max Roach - We Insist!~ Freedom Now Suite https://youtu.be/8Zyw4TWbgtE` https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAzTCfZod4c

Civil Rights Movement Archive https://www.crmvet.org/

Lectures by Abdul Alkalimat http://alkalimat.org/audioviz.html#intro

Sun Ra Lecture at University of California - Berkeley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px5hwNCs9ss

Freedom Archives https://freedomarchives.org/

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