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What does BP stand for?

Black Power


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Samples in periodicals archive:
9780415998550 Kwanzaa; black power and the making of the African American holiday tradition.
Confronted by dizzying rates of exclusion of black youths from school and the number of young black men in prison, the answer for commentators such as Michael eboda seems invariably to be a black power list or black "achievement" jamboree.
Mexico's Olympics went down in history as the Games which witnessed American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos making their famous black power salute on the medals podium for the 200m.
Both Cleage and Cone took the Nation of Islam's critique of Christianity seriously, which led to the emergence of radical black theologies of liberation, encapsulated in Cleage's The Black Messiah, and Cone's Black Theology and Black Power in 1969.
Long ago, hunters had to content themselves with black power guns that were a bit ?
At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, when US athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised their fists in a Black Power salute on the winner's podium, they brought to world attention a movement that was struggling to reverse decades of segregation, bigotry and outright vicious racism in America.
These debates provided a framework for the Black Power movement.
The African People's Socialist Party was founded in the US in the 1970s as a product of the Black Power movement.

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