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The Safeway grocery store at 27th and West Streets in Oakland, California, was closed. The parking lot was devoid of cars, except for that of the mana...
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We should be careful about using those terms that might turn our friends off. The terms "faggot" and "punk" should be deleted from our vocabulary, and...
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Who is running the Justice Department?
WASHINGTON, March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it filed a lawsuit on March 9, 2011, against the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain records detailing contacts between DOJ and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) over a voter intimidation lawsuit filed against the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Kristen Clark, a representative of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, reportedly met with representatives from DOJ to discuss the lawsuit just prior to DOJ's decision to drop the case.
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (D.C. Civil Action No. 76-2205).
Bruce J. Terris, Washington, D. C., with ...
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Commission on Civil Rights announces that it has released its report, including statements by Commissioners, on the implications of the Justice Department's actions in the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) case: Race Neutral Enforcement of the Law? DOJ and the New Black Panther Party Litigation: An Interim Report. The interim report has been transmitted to the President and Congress pursuant to the Commission's statute which provides that the Commission "shall submit to the President and Congress at least one report annually that monitors Federal civil rights enforcement efforts in the United States." The report is posted at http://www.usccr.gov/ NBPH/USCCR_NBPP_report.pdf.
The NBPP case arose when two members of the Pa...
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No group better dramatized the anger that fueled the 1960s BLACK POWER MOVEMENT...
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In this paper we examine the national-local interface of United States governmental social control aimed at the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and early 1970s. Through document analysis of Federal Bureau of Investigation files maintained on the Winston-Salem, North Carolina branch of the organization, we identify the FBI's official frame of the Black Panther Party and its national goals for social control. Our findings indicate that the FBI's official frame of the Black Panther Party as a violent, extremist group and a threat to national security helped to shape intelligence reports submitted by the Charlotte field office to national FBI headquarters. We identify the key mechanisms through which local field offices adopted the FBI's official frame. Local intelligence documents reinfor...
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New Documents Also Suggest Top Obama Political Appointees Orchestrated Decision to Abandon Case against New Black Panther Party
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) that provide new evidence that top political appointees at the DOJ were intimately involved in the decision to dismiss the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense (NBPP). These new documents, which include internal DOJ email correspondence, directly contradict sworn testimony by Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, who testified before the U.S. Commission...
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They came up with solutions for some of the poverty based problems in the Black community with such initiatives as the Free Breakfast Program for school children," said Ramla Bandele, a professor of political science at IUPUI and expert on urban politics. "The Panthers offered clinics that were widely accepted once they backed off the revolutionary stance and moved towards changing things in the community themselves.
Because of its revolutionary slant and use of some socialist principles the Black Panther Party became a target of the FBI, which viewed it as one of America's greatest "communist" threats to national security. By 1974 the party had basically collapsed due to disagreements over ideology, confusion stirred up by government informants, the imprisonment of many members and s...