Kevin “Rashid” Johnson has been bounced from prisons in Virginia, Oregon and Texas, and recently disappeared altogether, alarming his comrades in the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, which he co-founded. Johnson was finally located in a Florida prison, in solitary confinement. Florida prison officials have reportedly labeled the NABPP a “violent street organization.” Tito “Fist” Rivera, of the United Panthers Movement, told Black Agenda Radio producer Kyle Fraser: “Historically, whenever you are more than two people doing something that the system doesn’t want you doing, they consider that a gang.”
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The long tradition of radical black critique in popular forms of expression gives us material on which to model our re-imagining of the world.
The mulatta serves as a strategy of containment of Blackness through logics of racial management.
The fierce fighter against slavery defeated European armies but died in a cold French prison.
Non-unanimous verdicts allow ten jurors to “simply ignore the views of their fellow panel members of a different race or class.”
