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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered A Black Panther

Friday, November 27, 2009

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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.

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From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution

Friday, November 27, 2009

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From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution

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;

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Letter to the President: The Streets Get Political

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Letter to the President: The Streets Get Political

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.

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The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation

Saturday, June 20, 2009

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The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation

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.

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From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King

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.

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The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs

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.

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Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners

Monday, April 13, 2009

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Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners

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.

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