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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
Santi Elijah Holley
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 coun
Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher
10 March 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
Joseph G. Ramsey
03 March 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 Americ
Paul Ringel
24 February 2021
The 1971 raid marks a nationwide militarization of police relations with Black protest groups and Africa Americans as a group.
Dante James
24 February 2021
The film framed Hampton as a victim instead of a pro-active freedom fighter and revolutionary.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
17 February 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 Pan
Sundiata Acoli
17 February 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.
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