a movement of African Americans to unite in actively resisting discrimination, often calling for an independent course of action from movements that included whites. Black power emphasized self-defense tactics, self-determination, political and economic power, and racial pride.
A movement among African-Americans, begun in the mid-1960s, that emphasized racial pride and called for the creation of black political and cultural organizations.
Electricity generated using a process that emits greenhouse gases such as the burning of coal or gas. See also Green Power.
Attributed to Stokely Carmichael who used it to encourage blacks to attain more political clout. For a time this was a uniting theme among black people in the U.S. It became a rallying cry for action against the racial injustice of the 50s and 60s. Black activists were ready to fight the system. Huey Newton, Bobby Seal, Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers, Stokely Carmichael, Dick Gregory and Angela Davis were leaders in this radical movement. Some advocated revolution and the overthrow of the U.S. government. The Black Power movement struck fear into the heart of America's bigots and all the leaders were soon in jail, sometimes on trumped up charges, sometimes on real crimes. In any case the movement fractured, but the legacy of radical black activism had left its mark on America's psyche.
The Black Power philosophy emerged after 1965 to declare that real economic and political gains for African-Americans could only come through self-help, self-determination, and organizing for direct political influence. Latinos and Native Americans developed their own versions as Brown Power and Red Power, respectively.
Black Power was a political movement, most prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that strove to express a new racial consciousness among blacks in the United States. More generally, the term refers to a conscious choice on the part of blacks to nurture and promote their collective interests, advance their own values, and secure their own well-being and some measure of autonomy, rather than permit others to shape their futures and agendas. The first person to use the term Black Power in its political context was Robert F.
Black Power is a New Zealand gang, formed and organised in Whakatane in retaliation to the Mongrel Mob, and is part of the international United Black Power Movement. Black Power members wear a patch or leather jacket which bears the Black Power emblem — a clenched upright fist — and is recognised as a symbol of Power. Only during times of preparation to a Gang climatic event do members wear colours; the wearing of colours is mostly done by adolescent males, and the colour of which they wear is black and blue (all shades) bandanas.