
Ruling Class O-Progs fundamentally transform rootsBlack Power Mixtape 1967-1975: The Black Power movement has been both venerated and vilified, but what exactly did it mean?


Test your knowledge at the National Portrait Gallery’s screening of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, which documents this tumultuous period and features interviews with activists Angela Davis, Bobby Seale and Stokely Carmichael. Free. February 18 at 1:00 p.m.
(from
blogs.smithsonianmag.com)
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On this day: February 5Congress enacts a law banning most Asian immigration to the U.S. (1917)
John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the U.S. Congress (1974)
Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges (1988)
b: Belle Starr (1848), Frank Podmore (1856), Adlai Stevenson (1900), William S. Burroughs (1914); d: Mátyás Rákosi (1971)

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