Civil Rights Movement
A disgrace before God: Striking black sanitation workers vs. black officialdom in 1977 Atlanta
This article is a case study of the betrayal of the African American working class by the Black political class brought to power by the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960's.
"A disgrace before God"
Black particularity reconsidered - Adolph L. Reed Jr.
An in-depth 1970s analysis of how the management of black dissent by the black American middle-class/professional elite helped restructure capitalism to its own advantage.
"[i]Black Power presupposed a mass-organizational model built on the assumption of a homogeneity of black political interests to be dealt with through community leadership. It is this notion of "black community" that has blocked development of a radical critique in the Civil Rights movement by contraposing an undifferentiated mass to a leadership stratum representing it.
Reflection On Doctor King
Lorenzo Komboa Ervin's analysis of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I am not one of a number of persons and commentators who come merely to hypocritically give salutations to Dr. King, when in their own times, they betray his entire history of activism. In fact, the political establishment present us with a Martin Luther King, who never really existed.
