The new black radicalism: galvanized by continuing assaults on the gains African-Americans have made, 2,000 black radicals convened for the purpose of creating a united front. (Black Radical Congress, held June 19-21, 1998, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago)

Nation, The, July, 1998 by Ards, Angela

The Black Radical Congress gathering of various African American radicals and black political organizations was an effort to revitalize activism within the black community. The conference created eleven Principles of Unity as a foundation for stimulating African American community involvement.

This is another in a series of articles supported by the Haywood Burns Fund for Community Activist Journalism, sponsored by The Nation Institute and the New World Foundation, and exploring new developments in organizing. Angela Ards attended the 14th Congress of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in South Africa in 1996, and was with Haywood and his companions the night before they died.

--The Editors

It was first come, first serve for the...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works.