Hello, My name is Krista and I’ve been an intern at the Freedom Archives since November 2016, winter of my senior year in high school. I spent my first eight months here working on an update… Details
Hello there! My name is Jesse Escalante and I am a 21-year-old student at San Francisco State University majoring in Sociology and Dance. This past semester I took Grassroots Organizing… Details
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This clip is taken from a 1988 speech by Ahmed Obafemi of the New Afrikan People’s Organization in San Francisco. Obafemi speaks of the death of Michael Griffith, a Black… Details
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My name is Casey and I’ve been an intern here at the Freedom Archives since September. As a recently-graduated university student earning a minor in Gender Studies,… Details
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This multi part blog series highlights significant but relatively unknown moments of resistance to racist police violence as depicted in the pages of The Movement. When looking… Details
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This past spring, the Progressive Librarian, a journal for Critical Studies and Progressive Politics in Librarianship, published an article we wrote entitled “Don’t… Details
Afeni Shakur, known to most of us as rap icon Tupac Shakur’s mother, passed away last month (2nd May 2016). In his 1995 song “Dear Mama”, Tupac Shakur speaks about the… Details
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Today we honor the birthdays of Ho Chi Minh, Malcolm X, Yuri Kochiyama and Lorraine Hansberry. All were extremely important in their unyielding fight for self-determination,… Details
