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Topic: Black Panthers

André Holland in "The Big Cigar" (Apple TV+)

Hollywood, a fake film & Huey P. Newton

Nardos Haile
Two members of the Black Panther Party are met on the steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento, May 2, 1967, by Police Lt. (Getty Images/Bettmann / Contributor)

Reagan’s moment of historical irony

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Lynchings by states and counties in the United States, 1900-1931 (Library of Congress)

How Black cartographers fight racism

Derek H. Alderman, Joshua F.J. Inwood - The Conversation
Portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (AP/David Goldman)

Coming around on MLK, thanks to Grandma

D. Watkins
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Armed members of the Black Panthers Party in the Capitol in Sacramento, May 2, 1967. (AP/Walt Zeboski)

It's not about the Second Amendment

Matthew Rozsa
Mckesson on The Late Show in January.

Meagan Day - Medium
(Firelight Media/Jeffrey Blankfort)

The amazing Black Panther saga

Andrew O'Hehir
(AP/Carlo Allegri)

Luther Campbell gets political

Matthew Pulver
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Wingnuts react to Holder news

Luke Brinker
(Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

America's fortress of blood

Dan Berger
(Fox News)

Fox News' phony new obsession

Heather Digby Parton
Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks at a Selma, Ala., church in January 1965. (AP)

Guns made civil rights happen

Charles E. Cobb Jr.
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Angola prison (Wikimedia)

Natasha Lennard
George Zimmerman, Gabrielle Giffords (AP/Joe Burbank/Mary Schwalm)

Maybe Trayvon needed a gun

Andrew O'Hehir
Demonstrators outside the Los Angeles Hall of Justice during a preliminary hearing for 17 Black Panthers. January 6, 1970 (AP/Dick Strobel)

Michael C. Dawson
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

How long can Holder hang on?

Alex Seitz-Wald
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Natasha Lennard
Angola Prison (Wikimedia/kccornell)

Natasha Lennard
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Jillian Rayfield
(AP/Chris Carlson)

"I've never been more hopeful"

Salon Staff
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Malcolm X

Black Power: American as apple pie

Rickey Vincent - LA Review of Books
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