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History

Afeni Shakur Took on the State and Won

Pregnant and facing decades in prison, the mother of Tupac Shakur fought for her life—and triumphed—in the trial of the Panther 21.

Tashan Reed Jacobin Nov 2021 25min Permalink

Best Article

How Albert Woodfox Survived Solitary

As one of the Angola 3, he was in isolation longer than any other American. Then he came home to face his future.

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Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jan 2017 45min Permalink

Politics

Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s

Notes from a Black Panther fundraiser on Park Avenue.

Tom Wolfe New York Jun 1970 1h40min Permalink

Crime

The Transformation of Johnny Spain

The early life of “the onetime Black Panther, protégé of George Jackson, and sole member of the San Quentin Six convicted of murder.”

Chip Brown Esquire Jan 1988 35min Permalink

History

The Secret History of Guns

On America’s relationship with the right to bear arms, from the Founding Fathers to the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan.

Adam Winkler The Atlantic Sep 2011 20min Permalink

Crime

The Trial of Bobby Seale

An annotated transcript:

MR. SEALE: [The marshals are carrying him through the door to the lockup.] I still want an immediate trial. You can’t call it a mistrial. I’m put in jail for four years for nothing? I want my coat.

Jason Epstein New York Review of Books Dec 1969 1h5min Permalink