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School safety without police: Kaziah’s story

March 6, 2023 Pamela Oliver Police, Schools

I want to tell you a story that came up at a monthly meeting of folks from different Madison-area groups who get together to talk about how to build support for police-free schools. You may recall that last year there was a big fight at East High where police were

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Million Youth Marches

March 6, 2023 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

Although the “Million Youth March” is often referenced in later years as one of the examples of Black solidarity after the huge and inspiring Million Man and Million Woman marches, the reality was low attendance and a lot of conflict. After the success of the 1997 Million Woman March, older

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The Jena Six: Of nooses, fights, narratives, and movement building

February 8, 2023 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

NOTE: Since writing this blog I have gained more information and have written a longer paper with more details that gives a somewhat different slant on some events. I will link to that paper when I’ve finished revising it. There was a huge wave of Black protests in the wake

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Organizing the Million Man March

January 29, 2023 Pamela Oliver Black Movement

Most of the discussions of the Million Man March (MMM) have focused on interpretations of Louis Farrakhan’s ideology or about the meaning of the widespread Black support for the MMM for what it implied about what Black people thought about Farrakhan. Few have discussed the significance of the obvious: the

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Organizing the Million Woman March

January 28, 2023 Pamela Oliver Black Movement

The Million Woman March (MWM) was held in Philadelphia on October 25, 1997, nine days after the second anniversary of the Million Man March (MMM). Although crowd size estimates are always problematic, there were probably more people at the Million Woman March than the Million Man March. Unlike the Million

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Ben Chavis and the Million Man March

January 26, 2023 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

The 1995 Million Man March was arguably the most important event in Black History of the 1990s. News accounts at the time clearly listed both Louis Farrakhan and Ben Chavis as jointly responsible for organizing the Million Man March. However, nearly all news coverage and subsequent discussions of the Million

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Prison Gerrymandering (From Prison Policy)

December 6, 2021 Pamela Oliver Imprisonment, Wisconsin

This post from Prison Policy explains why local prison gerrymandering is a problem and how local governments have been prohibited from addressing the issue by a 1981 Wisconsin attorney general decision.

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Black Protests in the US, 1994-2010

November 30, 2021 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Research on protest & social movements, Social Movements

Although many discussions imply nothing happened between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter, we find that Black protests in the 1990s and 2000s seem continuous with what came later.

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Racial Disparity in Wisconsin Felony Sentences

February 18, 2021 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Prosecution, Wisconsin

Columnist Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel broke the news last week that Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack has been sitting on a year-old study that showed a clear pattern of racial disparity in Wisconsin prison sentences. Specifically, the study shows substantial racial differences in the likelihood

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Debunking Myths about the Civil Rights Movement

October 14, 2020 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Book Reviews, Social Movements

Jeanne Theoharis. A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History (Beacon Press. Kindle Edition) [E]ven those civil rights heroes we recognize today were reviled in their day and made to feel crazy. Today’s lamentation—that we need another King—misses the fact that we have many

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