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Hace 3 días · According to Malloy, newly enlisted Panthers Emory Douglas, Eldridge Cleaver, and Tarika Lewis stepped into this vacuum, ... first attempts to cultivate more tangible alliances after Huey Newton’s arrest on charges related to the shooting death of officer John Frey in October 1967.
Hace 1 día · Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, ... Jones told Lane he wanted to "pull an Eldridge Cleaver" and return to the US after repairing his reputation. In September 1978, ...
Hace 2 días · Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,621. This is the grave of Eldridge Cleaver. Born in 1935 in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, Cleaver did not spend much time growing up in the South. His family joined the millions of Black Americans getting out of the South in this era. With the rise of World War II and the expansion of industry into the West, that ...
Hace 5 días · Kathleen Cleaver earned a law degree and took an appointment as a professor. After returning from exile in Cuba, Newton was killed in a drug dispute in August 1989, perishing in an alley in West Oakland, not far from where he and Seale had founded the first Black Panther Party chapter.
Hace 4 días · Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947 [a] ), also known as Joanne Chesimard, is an American political activist and convicted murderer who was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). In 1977, she was convicted in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike ...
Hace 3 días · The clinics built on a long tradition of Black “institution building as a recourse to health equity” and modeled themselves after other free clinics of the time, working “in solidarity—and sometimes, in tandem” with other members of the radical health movement to share labor, funding, and supplies. 6. On a local level, the Baltimore ...
Hace 1 día · "Who would’ve thought that one of the best rock documentaries in recent memory would be about someone who lived on the periphery of the tempest rather than inside the storm itself? Perhaps the view of the circus that was the Rolling Stones during the ’60s and ’70s is more authentic when seen from the margins…
