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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Summer of Soul/Summer of Struggle…
25 Aug 2021
BAR's poet in residence pays tribute to fallen Black Panther Party comrades. Chalk silhouettes, bullet-violated bodies of Bunchy and John—UCLA, cold Campbell Hall
Ahjamu Umi
Lessons from Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panther Party
16 Jun 2021
Just like we glorified the black leather jackets, black berets, and guns in the 60s, we still romanticize African people with guns and mouths that fire more inaccurately than the guns they carry.
Santi Elijah Holley
The Black Panther Party Has Never Been More Popular, but Actual Black Panthers Have Been Forgotten
06 May 2021
The name Black Panther is a box-office draw, but can cinematic sympathy be extended to the Panthers who are still living and breathing in this country’s prisons?
Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher
Newly Obtained FBI Files Shed New Light on the Murder of Fred Hampton
10 Mar 2021
That all this time later we are still learning new information about Hampton’s killing is testament to the sheer volume of the effort aimed at this young revolutionary.
Joseph G. Ramsey
How Should Revolutionaries Relate to this Film? 15 Lessons from Judas and the Black Messiah
03 Mar 2021
Let’s not allow our revolutionary wish-list to keep us from appreciating the ways this film intervenes—with force and clarity—in our present American political discourse.
Paul Ringel
Why a Shootout Between Black Panthers and Law Enforcement 50 Years Ago Matters Today
24 Feb 2021
The 1971 raid marks a nationwide militarization of police relations with Black protest groups and Africa Americans as a group.
Dante James
Judas and the Black Messiah, A Missed Opportunity
24 Feb 2021
The film framed Hampton as a victim instead of a pro-active freedom fighter and revolutionary.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
What isn’t in Judas and The Black Messiah is Just as Important as What is
17 Feb 2021
Hollywood is big, mostly white, capitalist business, so it’s no surprise that its new film on Fred Hampton provides little information on Black Panther politics and history.
Sundiata Acoli
Black Liberation in Context: Political Prisoner Speaks on Torture at 2005 Human Rights Conference
17 Feb 2021
Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army political/prisoner of war Sundiata Acoli told human rights activists “torture is nothing new” in U.S.
Flint Taylor
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: A Short People’s History
10 Dec 2020
Hampton's body was dragged from the bloodstained bed to the hallway floor, to be displayed as the raiders' trophy “He's good and dead now."