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Should the Saints try to sign Dwight Freeney, and other Twitter mailbag questions

Edit The Times Picayune 11 Jun 2016
The New Orleans Saints wrapped up their Organized Team Activity sessions earlier this week with next week's minicamp ending the team's early on-field offseason phase. By far the most notable storyline occurred a few days ago when edge defender Hau'oli Kikaha reportedly tore the ACL in his knee. It's the third time he's sustained the injury while playing in college or the NFL ... Why not mo? — Huey Newton (@JA5O4) June 10, 2016 ... ....

Why You Shouldn’t Romanticize the Black Panther Party

Edit Dissident Voice 05 Jun 2016
Huey P. Newton explains the context for these programmes. ... How realistic is the expectation that the criminalized lumpen elements, Huey P. Newton’s “illegitimate capitalists,” will serve as agents of liberation? If members of the lumpen are transformed into agents of the revolution by way of methodical political education and disciplined organizing ......

Northwest African American Museum scores with "Posing Beauty"

Edit The Examiner 21 May 2016
A quotation from Carla Williams, one of the many photographers in the "Posing Beauty" show at the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) sums up the overall feel. "I take command of my own representation. I revel in my own skin." ... Other groupings include proud women on their couches, proud men with their cars, and three muscled shirtless men including Huey P. Newton and boxing champion Marvin Hagler ... ....

Freddie Gibbs Brings a BFK Gangsta Glare to Warehouse Live

Edit Houston Press 14 May 2016
A A. Facebook-. Twitter -. More shares recommend reddit email -. -. Freddie Gibbs. Warehouse Live. When you stand around for a rap show, you start noticing your surroundings and the people you’re about to share an experience with ... The Road To Mo Pop Tickets Fri., May. 20, 8.00pm ... 20, 8.00pm ... That was 2008 and 2009, meaning Gangsta Gibbs, all shaved head, Huey-Newton-In-The-Wicker-Chair tatted on his back glory would sort of play it safe ... ....

Why the raised fist is so powerful

Edit CNN 09 May 2016
(CNN)When American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised black-gloved fists over their heads during the medal ceremony at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968, they embodied much of the political turbulence of the era ... Smith and Carlos had an entire movement behind their fists ... Black Panther National Chairman Bobby Seale, left, wears a Colt .45, and Huey Newton, right, carries a shotgun in Oakland, California, in the 1960s....

The Whitney's extraordinary 'Human Interest' exhibit is the ultimate portrait show

Edit NJ dot com 08 May 2016
Art since 1900 seems, in this show, not to be about movements or even history but a key group of startlingly individualistic personalities ... "Human Interest ... Some are done from photographs, like Henry Taylor's near-life-size 2007 painting of the famous photo of Black Panther founder Huey P. Newton seated in a throne-like wicker chair holding a spear and a shotgun. The Newton photo was a popular poster in the '60s ... Human Interest ... Where ... 12....

The Debasing of Our Civic Currency

Edit The American Spectator 06 May 2016
Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 concludes a long, concerted drive to reimage U.S. currency. More to the point, it illustrates a profound, probably permanent shift in American historiography. Tubman joins the historical pantheon of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, and Ben Franklin ... Yes. Yes to all of that ... Huey Newton, Malcolm X, or Nat Turner up against the Man is more like it, and not only for Americans of color ... ....

Why Activists Today Should Still Care About the 40-Year-Old Church Committee Report

Edit Antiwar 04 May 2016
You can read its report here ... The FBI illegally wiretapped Malcolm X, Huey Newton and other “black extremist leaders,” as well as Puerto Rican nationalist groups and pro-Palestinian organizations. It aimed to “neutralize” peaceful civil rights groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and CORE, while the Army spied on and kept files on activists like Julian Bond and Walter Fauntroy....

Lil' Kim and the unbearable lightness of being

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 28 Apr 2016
This week the world saw – via that new, visual means of wildfire gossip-mongering known as “trending on social media” – Lil’ Kim’s new face and hair ... And, assuming it matters, she used to be a black woman ... Well, OK ... Huey Newton was like a pin-up, Kathleen Cleaver and Angela Davis were not only beautiful women with fashionable afros – they were brilliant, articulate and outspoken women at the forefront of a thwarted revolution ...   ... ....

Son of the Black Panther

Edit The New Republic 26 Apr 2016
When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced the Black Panther in the pages of Fantastic Four No ... Lee and Kirby’s Panther was a singular icon, the hereditary ruler of the fictional African nation of Wakanda ... King’s call for nonviolence in favor of armed resistance, and their methods inspired Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in California as they established the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in the fall of 1966 ... ....

The left-wing firebrands who turned to the right

Edit New Statesman 25 Apr 2016
Daniel Oppenheimer's Exit Right ... " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... Photo ... His search for an agent of radical change in America had brought him into what Oppenheimer describes as “a close but fraught partnership” with the Black Panther leader Huey Newton ... Many of their leaders were dead or in jail; Newton had fled to Cuba after being accused of killing a teenage prostitute ... ....

Another Witness Against the Beast

Edit CounterPunch 22 Apr 2016
by Society Editions. 7.25″ x 10″. 175 pp. $25.00. Friend to foe/ And back to friend/ Some to none/ Then none again. – Doug Youngblood ... A Time of the Phoenix Compendium ... In old mute films, the landlord and the cop were always the heavy ... Daley and Custer, but also James Dean, Spartacus, Huey Newton, Sitting Bull, the civil dead of the strip mines and the coughing all-nighter in a clinic with his old familiar, Black Lung ... ....

Activist sues over alleged punch from Oakland councilwoman

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 16 Apr 2016
Brown” during a dispute over affordable housing. Brown, who ran the Black Panther Party from 1974 to 1977 following Huey Newton’s leadership, claimed she suffered head injuries and bruises and underwent surgery at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland for a “massive rotator cuff tear” after the Oct ... Brown,” the lawsuit claims ... > ....
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