Carlos will be in Baltimore to accept another accolade, the American Visionary Art Museum’s Grand Visionary Award.

Their militant anti-racism fit the militant anti-racism of the Black Power movement, and the clenched fist became its symbol. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale raised their fists to exhort members of ...

Black women's beauty and fashion are complex, meaningful acts, deliberate strategies for engaging with the world that make ...

The goon, then, is not just a person. He is a technology of rule — a way of governing without appearing to govern, a way of repressing without fingerprints. In this sense, June 17 was not an ...

Insights from Andre M. Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the recent book, Black Power ...

In 2020, the clenched fist (also referred to as the black fist) was tied to the Black Lives Matter movement as an emblem of power, pride, and perseverance. The black fist is perhaps most closely ...

The company, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, said the image of the raised fist was the symbol of the ‘Black Power’ movement and argued it was a positive symbol and was not seen as offensive in ...

February is Black History Month, and many prominent historical figures are from the Metro Detroit area.

“Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s” Through 6/28/2025: Tue-Sat 9:30 AM-4:30 PM, Sun noon-5 PM, Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark, chicagohistory.org, $19 ($17 ...

In the 1960s, however, the raised fist became associated with the Black Power movement. One of the iconic – and controversial – images from the 1968 Olympic Games shows athletes Tommie Smith and John ...

Wide Angle The History Behind Trump’s Raised Fist How a symbol of Black Power and socialist liberation became one of the former president’s go-to gestures.