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  2. Black power movement - Wikipedia

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    e. The black power movement or black liberation movement was a branch or counterculture within the civil rights movement of the United States, reacting against its more moderate, mainstream, or incremental tendencies and motivated by a desire for safety and self-sufficiency that was not available inside redlined African American neighborhoods ...

  3. History of African Americans in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies). University of California Press, August 1, 2006. ISBN 0520249909, 9780520249905. Hunt, Darnell and Ana-Christina Ramón (editors). Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities. NYU Press, April 19, 2010.

  4. Eso Won Books - Wikipedia

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    Eso Won Books was an 1,800-sq-ft bookstore with an inventory mix of African American classic and contemporary titles, including a children’s section. The bookstore regularly hosted author events and community gatherings. It closed in 2022. History. Eso Won Books started in the summer of 1988 in Los Angeles.

  5. George Floyd protests in Los Angeles County, California

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    Caused by. Police brutality. Institutional racism against African Americans [1] [2] Reaction to the murder of George Floyd. Economic, racial and social inequality [2] This is a list of protests that took place in Los Angeles County, California following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while in police custody.

  6. Troubadour (West Hollywood, California) - Wikipedia

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    The Troubadour is a nightclub located in West Hollywood, California, United States, at 9081 Santa Monica Boulevard just east of Doheny Drive and the border of Beverly Hills. Inspired by a visit to the newly opened Troubadour café in London, it was opened in 1957 by Doug Weston as a coffee house on La Cienega Boulevard , then moved to its ...

  7. Bodhi Tree Bookstore - Wikipedia

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    Headquarters. 8585 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, California. , United States. The Bodhi Tree Bookstore, originally Bodhi Tree Book and Tea Shop, was an independent bookstore specializing in world religions, wisdom traditions, metaphysics, psychology, philosophy, and health. It was founded in 1970 in Los Angeles, California (now West Hollywood ...

  8. Blaxploitation - Wikipedia

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    Blaxploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s, when the combined momentum of the civil rights movement, the Black power movement, and the Black Panthers spurred black artists to reclaim power over their image, and institutions like UCLA to provide financial assistance for students of color to study filmmaking.

  9. Black power - Wikipedia

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    African Americans. Black power is a political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies which aim to achieve self-determination for black people. [1] [2] It is primarily, but not exclusively, used by black activists and other proponents of what the slogan entails in the United States. [3]

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