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Brown Berets and Black Panther imagery resurface amid stepped-up ICE enforcement

These groups present themselves as immigrant-rights defenders, not paramilitary forces — but the names carry historic weight.

Axios

Oakland's new mayor Barbara Lee fights high crime and tells federal law enforcement to stay away

Barbara Lee has been Oakland’s mayor for half a year

The Independent UK

Assata Shakur Dies in Exile at 78 — Inside Her Real Connection to Tupac and the Crime That Put Her on the FBI's Most Wanted List

Assata Shakur dies at 78 in Cuba. Explore her real connection to Tupac Shakur and the 1973 case that placed her on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

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Assata Shakur, an icon of Black liberation who was exiled to Cuba, dies aged 78

Shakur spent decades exiled after she was convicted of killing a state trooper in 1977 and escaped from prison

The Guardian - US

Fact vs Fiction: Godfather of Harlem season 4 episode 8 — did Muhammad Ali oppose the Vietnam War?

Godfather of Harlem season 4 episode 8 sees Muhammad Ali and the Black Panthers make attempts to sway a young man’s opinion on the Vietnam War.

WhatToWatch

Fact vs Fiction: Godfather of Harlem season 4 episode 5 — did the Black Panthers plot to bomb a police station?

Godfather of Harlem season 4 episode 5 sees Elise, Afeni and Black Panther Party plan a symbolic bombing of the local police station. Did that really happen?

WhatToWatch

What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther cubs know

The Black Panthers shook America awake before the party was eviscerated by the US government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged with unassailable pride and burning lessons for today

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Prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader José “Cha Cha” Jiménez dies at 76

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and Co-Founder of the Rainbow Coalition, has died

The Independent UK

Video of Black Panthers founder claiming to support Trump is ‘a lie’, says grandson

Video uploaded to TikTok showed 81-year-old Black Panther founder David Hilliard endorsing the now-convicted former president

The Independent UK

Hollywood, a fake film & Huey P. Newton

Showrunner Janine Sherman Barrois on the Apple TV+ series that explores one slice of the Black Panthers' history

Salon

A First Amendment battle looms in Georgia, where the state is framing opposition to a police training complex as a criminal conspiracy

When does lawful protest become criminal activity? That question is at issue in Atlanta, where 57 people have been indicted and arraigned on racketeering charges for actions related to their protest against a planned police and firefighter training center that critics call “Cop City.”

The Conversation

Black Panthers’ legacy, image at issue in feud over historic sites

A push to memorialize the Illinois Black Panther Party on the National Register of Historic Places has advanced to the national level.

Chicago Sun-Times

Teach the real legacy of Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers to inspire our youth

Let’s create a curriculum on Fred Hampton’s life. In contrast to the myth of the “gun-toting” Black Panthers, they laid the groundwork for many of the social service programs we know today, such as school breakfasts, day care and sickle cell testing.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ja Morant shows how a 'good guy with a gun' can never be Black

“Man enough to pull a gun, be man enough to squeeze it,” rapped NBA superstar Allen Iverson on his song “40 Bars.”

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As a single Black mom, Barbara Lee felt unrepresented. Now she runs for the US Senate

WASHINGTON — Barbara Lee was in her early 20s, a single mother of two young boys, attending Mills College in Oakland, California. The future California congresswoman needed public assistance and food stamps. She couldn’t afford child care, so often her children would attend classes with her.

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