Songbird

Groove Theory ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 119-146
Author(s):  
Tony Bolden
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Black Panther Party ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Vocal Technique ◽  
Community Theater ◽  
Rhythm And Blues ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Black Panther

This chapter examines Khan’s development into a powerhouse singer and talented songwriter as the frontwoman of Rufus. Drawing Khan’s childhood experiences described in her memoir, as well as musicologist Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.’s notion of black community theater, the chapter demonstrates how she transposed her rebellious spirit, evidenced briefly during high school as a volunteer worker for the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, into a self-conscious and contrarian artist who epitomized funk aesthetics. As one of the few women funk singers who didn’t have a gospel background or grow up in a musical family, Khan developed a jazz-inflected vocal technique and a singular, Chicago-based, rhythm-and-blues sound that became a funk trademark. At the same time, the chapter demonstrates that Khan’s interpretation of funk as a concept, particularly its nonconformity, which she exemplified in exhilarating eroticism during live performances, proved to be a double-edged sword. While she captivated music fans, Khan battled executives at ABC Records over racialized images of her sexuality. 

Black Power Assaults the Black Newspaper

Race News ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Black Power ◽  
Black Panther Party ◽  
Black Press ◽  
Black Power Movement ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
American Capitalism ◽  
Student Newspapers ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Black Panther

The alternative black press grew in popularity and editorial stridency in the 1960s, prompting commercial publishers to try to steer the Black Power Movement into acceptable political channels. Alternative publications included student newspapers, leftist political journals, and organizational newspapers for Black Nationalist groups. The Black Panther and Muhammad Speaks claimed circulations that rivaled the largest commercial newspapers. Alternative editors questioned the value of integration, endorsed armed self-defense, and embraced a Marxist critique of American capitalism and empire. Commercial publishers attempted to advise young sit-in protesters and then tried to define Black Power as the effective use of political power. By the late 1960s, though, they almost universally condemned the Black Panther Party and other militant activists, fearing unneeded provocations would erase significant legislative achievements.

A More Powerful Weapon

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily K. Hobson
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Black Panther Party ◽  
State Repression ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Collective Defense ◽  
Armed Resistance ◽  
Self Protection ◽  
Black Panther

Between 1969 and 1975, lesbian feminists developed a politics of collective defense, which linked self-protection and community building to armed resistance and the radical underground. Collective defense first emerged through alliances between the group Gay Women's Liberation and the Black Panther Party. It expanded through lesbian feminists' support for armed radical groups, their opposition to state repression, and their involvement in political and self-defense trials. The cases of the Symbionese Liberation Army, of white lesbian radical Susan Saxe, and of women of color Inez Garcia and Joan Little proved central to activists' politics. Yet as the experiences of the organization Gente showed, collective defense simultaneously mobilized anti-racism and constructed barriers between lesbians of color and white lesbian feminists.

scholarly journals Educação e emancipação: a perspectiva revolucionária das “escolas de libertação” do Black Panther Party For Self-Defense

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neusa Assis ◽  
Hormindo Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Black Panther Party ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Black Panther

A educação vem se mostrando ao longo do tempo como um importante objeto de disputa tanto por aqueles que advogam a manutenção e fortalecimento da ordem vigente quanto por aqueles que buscam a transformação e/ou superação dessa ordem. A educação enquanto mecanismo de emancipação é objeto desta pesquisa ainda em andamento, na qual, busca-se compreender a perspectiva revolucionária presente nas propostas educativas implementadas pelo Partido dos Panteras Negras para Autodefesa (The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) nas chamadas Escolas de Libertação. Para tal, a pesquisa evidencia a relação entre classe e raça no interior do sistema capitalista e suas implicações sociais com impactos diretos na educação dos sujeitos e retoma o relevante debate acerca dos limites e possibilidades da educação na transformação social.

Life’s Transitions to the Black Panther Party

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-53
Author(s):  
Paul J. Magnarella
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Black Panther Party ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Police Abuse ◽  
Fellow Member ◽  
Black Panther

Pete O’Neal describes his failed first marriage and his inability to adapt to a standard working-class life style. Once free from marriage he achieves his 12th Street ideal by becoming a pimp, only to experience a mental and spiritual breakdown. He commits himself to working for the black community and forms the Black Vigilantes to protect blacks from police abuse. He travels to the Black Panther Party headquarters in Oakland, California, to train and then get permission to form a branch of the Party in Kansas City. He describes the Party’s personnel, structure, and workings in Kansas. Pete marries fellow member Charlotte Hill, and years later both recollect their first meeting and how the Party saved their lives.

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