Black Panther Party
The new five-part FX docuseries “Dear Mama” explores the influence that Tupac’s mother Afeni Shakur, a former Black Panther lieutenant, had on her talented son.
Ahead of the Oscars, the comedy duo behind the film try to unpack how Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield somehow both ended up as “supporting” actors.
Author David Walker and illustrator Marcus Anderson say their history of the Panthers illuminates a movement and an era that foreshadowed Black Lives Matter.
The film, which premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, dramatizes the FBI’s persecution of actress Jean Seberg for her ties to the Black Panther Party.
In 1970 the man Richard Nixon called ‘the most dangerous man in America’ broke out of jail and escaped to Algeria, where he briefly enjoyed the hospitality of the Black Panthers.
As young lefties, we pledged our generation of radicals would never succumb to the totalitarian temptation.
Micah Johnson was banned, deemed ‘unstable’ after the Army kicked him out for stealing panties. That didn’t stop him from writing a group motto in his own blood.