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PHOTOS: Black Panther House Sold

Posted 03.24.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. — The Black Panther party preached "power to the people," but in the San Francisco Bay area's thriving real estate market, the power...

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"Who Got the Camera?": Hip-Hop's Quest for Social Justice

Mark Anthony Neal | Posted 02.19.2012

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Mark Anthony Neal

In an era marked by the increased presence of law enforcement in Black communities, young Black men were particularly susceptible to blatant forms of police brutality. As such, so-called "gangsta rap "was likely the most organic documentation of police brutality in Black communities.

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Rebecca Carroll

Danny Glover Wants 'Black Power Mixtape' To Encourage Transformation

HuffingtonPost.com | Rebecca Carroll | Posted 11.13.2011

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"The Black Power Mixtape" feels less like a documentary and more like a photo album lovingly pasted together by foreign exchange students who stayed w...

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Common and Michelle Obama's Bad Rap about Assata Shakur: The Hero Wore a Black Hat

Dr. Jonathan David Farley | Posted 07.15.2011

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Dr. Jonathan David Farley

Cue conservative outrage over Michelle Obama's inviting rapper Common to a White House poetry reading, because Common wrote one adulatory song about Black Panther Assata Shakur. The New Jersey state police protested.

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"What If The Tea Party Was Black?" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Tom Kent | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just as the NAACP's recent feud with the Tea Party caused an uproar last week, Jasiri X, a rapper hailing from Pittsburgh, Pa., released a music video...

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The Willie Hortonization of Barack Obama

Ari Rabin-Havt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Rabin-Havt

A long line of inmates enters and exits a prison yard. As the lone black inmate reenters society, he peers into the camera with a menacing glance. The ad plays on "fears of the dangerous, violent, black male."

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Blacks Blind Eye to the New Black Panther Party Hurts

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The tiny, fringe New Black Panther Party did a great service for the Obama and race baiting conservative attack machine. It finally gave it another e...

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An Open Letter to J. Christian Adams, the Black Panthers' Nemesis & My Law School Classmate

Donnie Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Donnie Fowler

Congratulations on lighting a fire for your cause in this hyper-partisan time and becoming the hero of the day for an aggrieved conservative movement.

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Another Side of the Sixties: Black Panthers at UCLA (Photos)

Devon McReynolds | Posted 05.25.2011

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Devon McReynolds

The blood of Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins Jr. will forever stain the black and white checkered floors of UCLA's Campbell Hall.

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Southern California Black Panthers Tell Their Stories in A New Documentary

Anthea Raymond | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anthea Raymond

Director Gregory Everett didn't know his father growing up. But he did know that he had been a Black Panther.

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Jeff Haas, Bill Ayers Discuss New Book About Fred Hampton And Activism At Chicago Bookstore

Huffington Post | Samira Said | Posted 05.25.2011

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Produced by HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit "Back [in the 60's] segregation was normalized so it's easy to say 'If I would have been a...

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Nothing but a Northern Lynching: The Death of Fred Hampton Revisited

Susan Rutberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Susan Rutberg

Forty years ago, on December 4, 1969, 21-year-old Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was murdered as he slept in his home on Chicago's West Side.

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Frederick Douglass and Fred Hampton: Two Explosive New Books

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Ayers

Two new books will find their way into classrooms and are sure to force teachers into uncomfortable conversations, especially when young people can be unfettered by myths that keep us ignorant.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lauri Lyons

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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Civil Rights and American Politics

Bob Starks | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bob Starks

Let us hope that Senator Obama understands the significance of all of those August 28ths that we now commemorate.

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