Palestine prison

by Mumia Abu-Jamal Palestinians protest apartheid constantly – and creatively. This banner was raised to demonstrate resistance to a new segment of the apartheid wall in Qalqilya, Palestine, on July 31, 2003. It is one of the ironies of history that the descendants of the beleaguered Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, subjected to the bitter hatreds and […]

Former Black Panther Party Members Gather to Salute Their Own

Kathleen Cleaver will be the keynote speaker by Mohammed Mubarak *Back in October 1968 I was just a 16 year old junior at Centennial High School in when I met a young man named, John Huggins. He was passing out Black Panther Party leaflets as school was letting out, that promoted a big upcoming event that […]

Five Comrades in The Black Panther Party, 1967-1970

by Judy Juanita   BOBBY SEALE AND Huey Newton came to San Francisco State in the spring of ’67 to recruit at the same time Clorox, Kaiser and IBM came. The two men stood side by side, gave their spiel, their sign up sheets laid out in the back of the room. My roommates and […]

Review: ‘41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers’

by the People’s Minister of Information JR “41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers” is a documentary about the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party, which was only the second chapter created after the Bay Area. The film was shot by Panther cub Gregory Everett, whose father, former Panther […]

They Do Not All Sound Alike: Sampling Kathleen Cleaver, Assata Shakur, and Angela Davis

s Assata Shakur, Image with quote courtesy of Flickr user Jacob Anikulapo Welcome to week four of  our February Forum on “Sonic Borders,”  a collaboration with the IASPM-US blog in connection with this year’s IASPM-US conference on Liminality and Borderlands, held in Austin, Texas from February 28 to March 3, 2013.  The “Sonic Borders” forum is a […]

Black Panther Torture “Trial” Tape Surfaces

Source: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/rackley_trial_tape_surfaces/ by Paul Bass the basement of a New Haven housing co-op, tied to a chair at gunpoint, in a vain effort to save his life, Alex Rackley started giving up names after fellow party members poured pots of boiling water over him. Now you can hear what he said. The date was Sunday, […]

A Black Child’s Pledge

In honor of Black History Month, a poem written by Shirley Williams originally published in The Black Panther Newsletter in October, 1968 I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO MY BLACK PEOPLE. I PLEDGE TO DEVELOP MY MIND AND BODY TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE. I WILL LEARN ALL THAT I CAN IN ORDER TO GIVE MY BEST TO MY […]