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How We Misunderstand The History Of Black Protest

January 19, 2016 Juliet Hooker, www.truth-out.org , , , ,
By Juliet Hooker for Truthout - As the Obama era draws to a close, Black protest has resurfaced in a decisive way with the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM), which burst into national consciousness with the protests in Ferguson following the killing of Michael Brown in 2014. Yet many commentators have criticized the Black Lives Matter movement for failing to emulate the nonviolent tactics and reconciliatory politics that supposedly characterized the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
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