He was the informant who gave the FBI the floor plan of Fred Hampton’s apartment. Last week he ran onto the Eisenhower Expressway and killed himself.
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End the isolation of Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) | San Francisco Bay View
Open Letter to the Bureau of Prisons and State of Georgia by Concerned Academics
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They called him Bunchy, like a bunch of greens | San Francisco Bay View
“When they killed Bunchy, they killed the Party – we just didn’t know it at the time.” – Roland Freeman, member of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party.
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Memoir of Elaine Brown, the only woman to lead the Black Panther Party, set to be adapted for film | Shadow & Act
Brown was the chairperson of the party from 1974-1977 while Huey Newton was in exile in Cuba, appointed by Newton himself. She most notably expanded the BPP’s objectives to include matters of importance to black women.
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8 Black Panther Party Programs That Were More Empowering Than Federal Government Programs – Atlanta Black Star
The Black Panther Party is known for its tremendous efforts to obtain justice for African-Americans during the civil rights movement. Their impact on history can be showcased through the numerous programs created to help the Black community.
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Antoine Fuqua To Develop Film Based On Black Panther Murdered By Police – Huffington Post
In 1969 Fred Hampton was shot dead during a police raid.
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The story of the British Black Panthers through race, politics, love and power – The Guardian
The experience of black people in the UK in the 1970s is examined in Guerrilla, a new drama series written by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley. Now that story finds echoes in a powerful exhibition of photographs of the time.
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An Interview With Former Black Panther Lynn French
The fact that the Panther Party, by the time you joined in 1968, was over two-thirds women struck me as amazing.
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