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A Black Panther Love Story – Charlotte & Pete O’Neal

March 2020: Charlotte and Pete O’Neal at their home in the Arusha region of northern Tanzania. (Photograph by Jaclynn Ashly)This article is mirrored from https://www.newframe.com/part-one-a-black-panther-love-story/. Part one Charlotte and Pete O’Neal fled the United States when he was targeted as a member of the Black Panther Party. Part one of …

Geronimo ji Jaga

Geronimo ji Jaga was a freedom fighter who spent almost three decades behind bars in the united states, as a New Afrikan prisoner of war. In 1968, Geronimo returned to the U.S. as a decorated war veteran after three years in Vietnam. Originally from Louisiana, he moved to Los Angeles, …

Parole Board Gives Sundiata Acoli, age 73, Ten Year Hit

“Prisons are a fundamental pillar of state power. Their main function is the suppression of all internal threats to the State.” – Sundiata Acoli Jericho reports the following, from Sundiata Acoli: July 14, 2010Greetings All, Received a letter today from the Board advising that the 3-Member Panel gave me a …

The War Before: Remembering Safiya Bukhari

Born in Harlem, Safiya Bukhari joined the Black Panther Party in 1969. Imprisoned for nine years on a robbery and murder charge, Bukhari was released in 1999 and went on to co-found the New York Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition and other organizations advocating for the release of political prisoners. She …

The War Before: Events and Book Launches Across Amerika

The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind Black Liberation Army member, vice-president of the Republic of New Afrika, prisoner of war, comrade, activist, mother, grandmother. Safiya Bukhari was all of these things and many …

USSF Panel on the the SF8

A Special broadcast of Hard Knock Radio featuring a panel on the San Francisco 8 – with Cynthia McKinney, Kathleen Cleaver, Soffiyah Elijah and Claude Marks – from the U.S. Social Forum. While there are some funny moments – i.e. Kathleen Cleaver comparing the overthrow of Allende to the “overthrow” …