In the 50th anniversary of the Black Panthers, four of its women tell their stories: By Ang Li for NY City Lens This Black History Month marks the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party. The controversial organization was a radical political group in the...
44 years ago, deep in rural Louisiana, three young black men were silenced for trying to expose continued segregation, systematic corruption, and horrific abuse in the biggest prison in the US, an 18,000 acre former slave plantation called Angola. Peaceful, non-violent protest in the form of hunger and...
“If one looks at the 10-point program of the Black Panther Party, one sees that the very same issues that were raised in the aftermath of slavery are at the center of a program that was formulated in 1966,” said Davis, now a professor emeritus...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="7423" onclick="custom_link" link="http://www.buzzfeed.com/e6carter/the-omaha-two?utm_term=.nvbkNlZRDP#.sp836NnRXO"][quote cite="Elena Carter BuzzFeed Contributor"] In 1971, Omaha Black Panther leaders Edward Poindexter and Mondo we Langa were sentenced to life in prison for a bombing that killed a local police officer. In the 45 years since, they’ve been fighting for a quieter...