词汇 | black power |
词源 | black power. No one is sure of the origins of this slogan urg- ing or demanding political and economic power for African- Americans. CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, used it as a slogan in the 1960s but it was not new at the time. In his Simple Takes a Wife (1953) poet and novelist Langston Hughes wrote: “Black is powerful,” which may be the source for the term. |
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