Tag Archive | "Black Panthers"
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered A Black Panther
Among some circles, Fred Hampton is a luminary without peers. Though new generations may only catch his reference in a song, his legacy in Chicago and to the Black liberation movement is without question.
Continue reading...From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution
Friday, November 27, 2009
Black Panther Party leader Huey Newton perhaps explained Black revolutionary nationalism best when he drew lines against what he called reactionary nationalism. Revolutionary nationalism is a force that sees capital and the ruling order in a fundamentally different way;
Continue reading...Letter to the President: The Streets Get Political
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Letter to the President: The Streets Get Political, produced by Russell Simmons, directed by Thomas Gibson, composed by Quincy Jones, and narrated by Snoop Dogg, is a wake-up call to the world that hip-hop and rap does not mean money, ignorance, and violence, but a voice from a imprisoned, oppressed, and repressed community. This is an excellent film on the history of hip-hop and rap in the U.S. in relation to race, class, and sexism.
Continue reading...The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
Saturday, June 20, 2009
It is no secret that the United States does not hesitate to incarcerate. While the US only represents 5% of the global population, it cages nearly 25% of the world's prisoners-approximately 2.3 million people. Of these 2.3 million people, approximately half are African American (13% of US population). Of course, the vastly disproportionate caging and state coercion of African Americans in the US has a long and brutal history. This bloody legacy is made manifest in prisons like Angola, named for the country from which many southern plantation slaves were abducted.
Continue reading...From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Presenting one's memoir consciously as that of a former Black Panther Party member, even as simply a factual statement, is bound to bring any such book into some heady company. Think Assata Shakur's Assata, George Jackson's Blood in My Eye, Bobby Seale's Seize the Time and nearly a dozen other autobiographies and biographies. And though From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography Of Black Panther Robert Hillary King (nee Robert King Wilkerson) is no Soul On Ice (Eldridge Cleaver's bubbling personal manifesto), King's words percolate with the urgency and determination that made the Panthers once one of North America's most revolutionary units.
Continue reading...The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The rise of the New Black Panther Party and ensuing disputes over the party's name and legacy throughout the 1990s did more for returning the Panthers' name to the popular consciousness than even the passing of Huey Newton in 1989. Ignoble as that distinction may be, such paved the way for books like The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs to reach a new audience.
Continue reading...Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
Monday, April 13, 2009
The Sixties presented social movements with some of recent history's most spectacular schisms, many of which continue to be debated. Assimilation versus revolutionary nationalism versus cultural nationalism; and Old Left aesthetics versus New Left rejection of convention were among them. But none so clearly defined the troubles of that period like the verbal and other skirmishes over militancy.
Continue reading...- Girls Are Not Chicks - Coloring Book
- The Jena 6
- A Movement of Movements: Is another world really possible?
- The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered A Black Panther
- Behind the Mask
- On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Twenty-First Century Lynching
- Earthlings
- The Will to Resist
- The Lifelong Activist: Changing the World Without Losing Your Way
- The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
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Friday, November 27, 2009
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