movement politics

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February 18, 2026

The Elected King of Black America or the Black King of Progressivism

Gerald Early Common Reader

This book, writes reviewer Early, "is a fine, solidly written biographical and political study of Jesse Jackson and the rise of Black presidential aspirations in the American two-party system."

July 28, 2016

The Democratic Convention is Highlighting the Difference Between Electoral and Movement Politics

Bruce Shapiro The Nation

Elected officials operate within the parameters of possibility. Movement politics is about redefining those parameters. Whoever is elected in November - even Trump - takes office in a country percolating with organized discontent at inequality, climate change, Citizens United, police violence. That's movement politics.

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