Black Power

social movement originating in the USA

US Black power organization (1966–1982)

Kwanzaa () is an annual celebration of African-American culture from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually on the sixth day. It was created by activist Maulana Karenga based on Karenga's research of African harvest festival traditions from various parts of West, East, and Southeast Africa. Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966. A 2009 estimate placed the number of Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa between 500,000 and 2,000,000.

American activist (1941-1998)

Assata Olugbala Shakur was an American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million reward for information leading to her capture, and an additional $1 million reward offered by the New Jersey attorney general. She was never caught and remained a fugitive for 45 years.

Afrocentrism is a racialized worldview that is centered on the history of people of Black African descent or a view that favors it over non-African civilizations. It is in some respects a response to Eurocentric attitudes about African people and their historical contributions. It seeks to counter what it sees as mistakes and ideas perpetuated by the racist philosophical underpinnings of Western academic disciplines as they developed during and since Europe's Early Renaissance as justifying rationales for the enslavement of other peoples, in order to enable more accurate accounts of not only A

political and social movement and ideology

American far-left militant organization, 1969–77

ideology that seeks to develop a black national identity

protest during 1968 Olympic Games

Black nationalist American social movement

largest student-led civil rights organization during the American Civil Rights Movement

communal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

American political activist (born 1941)

1995 film by Mario Van Peebles

American political collective

political ideology applied to a group of African people descent who identify with the principles of anarchism

inmate organization

radical African-American social, political and cultural movement in the United States

cultural movement started in the USA in the 1960s by African Americans

movement that encouraged black people to embrace their African heritage & culture

African American–led art movement, active between the 1960s and 1970s

notion that discrimination against African Americans amounts to genocide

US terrorist group

Hoteps are members of an African American subculture that adopts ancient Egyptian history as a source of Black pride. They have been described as promoting pseudohistory and misinformation about African-American history. Hoteps espouse a mixture of Black radicalism and social conservatism. Notable people who have promoted hotep ideas, or have been described as part of hotep subculture, include Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, and Umar Johnson.

term coined in the late 1980s by Clenora Hudson-Weems, intended as an ideology applicable to all women of African descent