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Let Herman Bell’s Parole Stand!
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
10 Apr 2018
🖨️ Print Article

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo have been pressuring the state parole board to reverse its pending release of Herman Bell, the former Black Panther imprisoned since 1973 in the death of a cop. The two Democrats’ campaign against Bell “should end their political careers; they ought to be marked ‘done’ in the Black community,” said Ralph Poynter, of the New Abolitionist Movement, husband of the late people’s lawyer and political prisoner, Lynne Stewart.

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