Jessica Ann Levy — Black Power, Inc.
Historian Jessica Ann Levy traces Black empowerment politics from Reverend Leon Sullivan's 1964 declaration to its legacy in modern movements.
Why we picked this
The overlooked story of how Black economic self-determination movements crossed the Atlantic — from Philadelphia boycotts to anti-apartheid pressure campaigns.
Jessica Ann Levy traces a strand of Black political history that rarely gets its own narrative: the movement for Black economic empowerment that stretched from American cities to the African continent. Beginning with Reverend Leon Howard Sullivan’s 1964 call for economic self-determination in Philadelphia, Levy follows the idea as it evolved through corporate boardrooms, international diplomacy, and anti-apartheid campaigns.
In conversation with Marcia Chatelain, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise, this event puts two historians in dialogue about the intersection of race, capital, and political power in the long 20th century.
Free event at Politics and Prose, Connecticut Avenue.