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Haitian Immigration and Community Defense
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Since its revolution and severance from the colonial forces of France, Haiti had been an inspiration for many anti-imperialist movements around the world; serving as both a symbolic and material force…
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Haiti and Popular Resistance
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series After overthrowing the 30-year Duvalier dictatorship on Feb. 7, 1986, a historic mobilization – the Lavalas movement (meaning “the flood” ) came into power in 1991, headed by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.…
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US and UN Intervention in Haiti
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Since ousting their French oppressors and achieving independence in 1804, the Haitian people have remained under constant threat of imperialist intervention from the international bourgeois order. From the initial neocolonial robbery…
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Haiti and the Dominican Republic
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Following the victory of the Haitian Revolution, the entire island of Ayiti/Quisqueya was joined by Haitian efforts to stop once and for all European domination over the island, and the understanding…
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Haiti’s History of Resistance
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Last year, on the first day of our 28 Days of Black Liberation program, GDC highlighted the Haitian Revolution as a pivotal part of Black revolutionary history in America. This year,…
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1919 to today: How Have the Conditions Changed?
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series A Black Person is murdered by America every day, whether by racial violence, police violence, the carceral system (including ICE), lack of housing, healthcare system or environmental racism. Everyday a Black…
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If We Must Die & Art as a Political Commitment
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series If We Must Die was written by Claude McKay in 1919 in response to the mob murders of the Red Summer. He published it in the July 1919 issue of The…
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The Red Summer: A history of Gun Control
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series During the Red Summer, white gun shop owners barred Black people from buying guns in some areas to try to stop them from being able to protect themselves & to prevent…
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Red Summer, Red Scare
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series The Red Summer took place during of the First Red Scare, a time of widespread fear of left-wing movements due partly to real events like the Russian Revolution of 1917, the…
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The Red Summer of 1919: Political Borders and a Manufactured Migration Crisis
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Over one million Black Americans migrated to the north during and after slavery; The Chicago Defender titled this mass migration The Exodus. For centuries Black Americans were hunted, killed and tortured…