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Month: January 2024

A Decades-Long Movement: Media Coverage of the Mobilization for Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1994-2013

January 22, 2024 Erin Gaede Black Movement, Social Movements

A sustained campaign throughout the 1990s and 2000s successfully opposed the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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Cincinnati 2001: Police Killing of Timothy Thomas and Insurrection

January 19, 2024 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Police, Racial issues, Research on protest & social movements, Social Movements

General Background The events in Cincinnati were often referred to as the largest riot or rebellion since 1992 in Los Angeles and/or the largest riot or rebellion in Cincinnati since the 1960s. On Saturday April 7 2001, 19 year old Timothy Thomas was shot and killed while running away from

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Cincinnati 2001 Protests: A First-hand account

January 19, 2024 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Police

A narrative by Carl Sack about his experience during the 2001 Cincinnati protests. Carl wrote this narrative at the request of Pam Oliver, who had heard him describe these incidents. Carl is a White man who is now a PhD Geographer who is on the faculty of a community college. This

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Biggest Black Movement Criminal-Legal News Stories 1994-2010

January 15, 2024 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Research on protest & social movements

Our research project is using articles from mainstream newswires (as archived in the Linguistic Data Consortium’s Annotated English Gigaword) and Black newspapers to identify Black protest events in the 1990s and 2000s. This is an under-studied period in Black movement history. In this article we summarize the most newsworthy episodes

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