Jesús A. Rodríguez is a writer in Washington, D.C., covering politics, identity and injustice. Follow him @jesusrodriguezb. On the night of March 11, 1972, thousands of Black Americans from around the ...
Forty-nine years ago, Black Americans across every spectrum gathered at West Side High School in Gary to hash out an independent Black political agenda. The late Gary mayor Richard G. Hatcher ...
The early 1970s saw a collective outrage in the Black community following years of discrimination and the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. It led to a historic gathering of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev. Jesse Jackson, executive director of Operation PUSH, speaks from the floor of the National Black Political Convention in Gary ...
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