#black self-determination

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Juris North: Sovereign Selves, Sovereign Peoples, Sovereign States: Black Self-Determination Reconsidered

Juris North 2026/27 Event Sovereign Selves, Sovereign Peoples, Sovereign States: Black Self-Determination Reconsidered Following successful roundtable events including our global response to crises in 2020, the work of Hans Kelsen in 2021 and 2022, contemporary non/anti-positivist legal theory in 2023 and queer theory, leadership and inclusion in 2024/2025, we are pleased to invite expressions…

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You might know Boley for its rodeo, but there's more to this historically Black Oklahoma town

Boley is hosting the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit “Crossroads: Change in Rural America," through June 25.

Oklahoma occupies a singular place in American history: Nowhere else in the country did so many African American men and women gather to create their own communities. 

Between 1865 and 1920, African Americans developed more than 50 all-Black towns and settlements throughout Indian Territory.  

All-Black towns grew in Indian Territory after the Civil War when former slaves of the Five Tribes, known as  "freedmen," settled together. When the Land Run of 1889 opened up even more opportunities for settlement, African Americans flocked to Oklahoma to escape discrimination, take advantage of those opportunities and find community.  

The largest and best-known of Oklahoma's historically all-Black towns, Boley is one of only 13 still in existence. 

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It is beside the point whether Black, Puerto Rican, Native American and Chicano- Mexicano people endorse nationalism as a vehicle for self-determination or agree with anarchism as being the only road to self-determination. As revolutionaries we must support the will of the masses. It is not only racism but compliance with the enemy to stand outside of the social arena and permit America to continue to practice genocide against the third world captive colonies because although they resist, they don't agree with us. If we truly know that Anarchy is the best way of life for all people, we must promote it, defend it and know that the people who are as smart as we are will accept it. To expect people-to accept this, while they are being wiped out as a nation without allies ready to put out on the line what they already have on the line is crazy.

[K. Bala, "Anarchy Can't Fight Alone"]