Black Panthers 
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SOURCE: The Progressive
10-27-16
Why the Black Panthers Matter Today
by Yohuru Williams
One of the lessons to take away from the formation of the Black Panther Party is the need to acknowledge the concerns of citizens brutalized by a criminal justice system which functions today much in the same way it did fifty years ago.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
9-6-15
Documentary on Black Panthers Is a Must-Watch
The film is dense with information, and offers a gripping ride through the picket signs and calls for policy reform that defined the 1960s.
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SOURCE: The Root
9-1-15
How the Black Panthers Fought to Make Black Lives Matter in the ’60s and ’70s
Stanley Nelson’s timely documentary brings some clarity to the murky history of one of the civil rights era’s most militant groups.
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SOURCE: HNN Book Review
7-22-14
In new book UC Berkeley historian Waldo E. Martin, Jr. takes Black Panther Party's point of view
by Ron Briley
"Essentially, Bloom and Martin write their history from the perspective of the BPP, relying upon oral histories of the party as well as a close reading of the party newspaper."
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SOURCE: Special to HNN
2-10-13
Jeremy Kuzmarov: Review of Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.'s "Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party"
Jeremy Kuzmarov is J.P. Walker associate professor of history at the University of Tulsa and author of The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs (Massachusetts, 2009) and Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation Building in the American Century (Massachusetts, 2012).
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