How the clenched fist came to define Black power Smith and Carlos's use of the raised fist was a symbolic precursor to NFL player Colin Kaepernick's bent-knee protest in 2017, and the reaction was ...

How an FBI Wanted poster turned Angela Davis into a symbol of Black Power and liberation. How did an FBI Wanted poster, intended to make a criminal out of activist and academic Angela Y. Davis ...

The gesture has a long history as a symbol of defiance and is often associated with both left-wing politics as well as oppressed groups. In the 1960s, the black power movement used it as a gesture ...

The racial connotation of the brawl transformed the folding chair into a symbol of Black resistance, with people online calling it the “star” of the Montgomery fight. Another Twitter user ...

Some believe if you cross a black cat's path then your life's path will head downwards. The black cat has also been associated as a symbol with Halloween.

It's our glory, and you better ask before you think about touching it," Wilson said. Ask before you touch is a rule of thumb in the Black community. It's a sign of respect to honor Black culture.

America jumped onto the clenched-fist bandwagon several decades later, and its symbolism became a centerpiece of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. At the time, the civil rights movement of ...