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• SOURCE: HuffPost
  5/10/2021
  

  FBI Releases File On Suspicions Raised About Kurt Cobain’s 1994 Death

  Fans who doubted the official story that Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain's death in 1994 was a suicide had requested investigation by the FBI, which declined. 

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• SOURCE: Spectre Journal
  4/21/2021
  

  Revolution is Illegal: Revisiting the Panther 21 at 50

  by Orisanmi Burton

  "To revisit the history of the BPP is to experience the rhyme of history. Yet, the refrain is not a pleasant one."

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  3/2/2021
  

  Newly Obtained FBI Files Shed New Light on the Murder of Fred Hampton

  by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher

  New documents shed further light on the involvement of the FBI in the 1969 assassination of Chicago Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, who is the subject of the new film "Judas and the Black Messiah." 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  2/21/2021
  

  What the FBI Had on Grandpa

  by Molly Jong-Fast

  "I never considered my grandfather to be a danger to the republic, but J. Edgar Hoover disagreed." The FBI surveilled writer Howard Fast extensively, though, as he wrote in his autobiography, "the eleven hundred pages detailed every—or almost every—decent act I had performed in my life."

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  2/21/2021
  

  Malcolm X's Family Releases Letter Alleging FBI, Police Role In His Death

  The family of the late leader released a letter they claim shows the involvement of a NYPD detective in a conspiracy to assassinate Malcolm X. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/13/2021
  

  The Unsettling Message of "Judas and the Black Messiah"

  by Elizabeth Hinton

  The film "brings the disparities engendered by a surveillance state into focus, leaving audiences to wonder what this country would look like if the war on white supremacy were fought with the same implacable intensity as the one against the Black Panther Party some 50 years ago."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/10/2021
  

  "Judas and the Black Messiah" Is an American Tragedy

  The performances of the lead actors in "Judas and the Black Messiah" elevate the story of Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton's assassination by the police and FBI to a complex story of the Black freedom movement. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/8/2021
  

  Why a Shootout Between Black Panthers and Law Enforcement 50 Years Ago Matters Today

  by Paul Ringel

  A 50 year-old police attack on members of the High Point chapter of the Black Panther Party has been largely forgotten, but it shows the historical development of a pattern of law enforcement that targets Black militants and allows white supremacist radicals free rein. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/9/2021
  

  What ‘Defund the Police’ Really Means

  by Simon Balto

  The debate about "defunding police" must return to the community-driven vision of activists like assassinated Black Panther Fred Hampton, who envisioned a program of community empowerment that could divert the vast resources spent on policing toward other social ends. 

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• SOURCE: Buzzfeed
  1/29/2021
  

  A New Photo Exhibit Looks At Decades Of FBI Surveillance On American Citizens

  Christopher Gregory-Rivera's new exhibit documents the FBI's surveillance, in concert with Puerto Rican authorities, of private citizens suspected of involvement in the island's independence movement.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  1/15/2021
  

  A New Film Details the FBI’s Relentless Pursuit of Martin Luther King Jr.

  The new film "MLK/FBI" addresses Americans' failure to remember that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was unpopular, labeled as divisive and subversive, and subject to harassment by federal law enforcement agencies during his life. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/11/2020
  

  51 Years Later, Coded Message Attributed to Zodiac Killer Has Been Solved, F.B.I. Says

  The FBI announced that a Virginia software developer led a successful effort to solve a coded message created by the notorious Bay Area serial killer. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2020
  

  FBI Won’t Deliver Report on White-Supremacist Terror Threat Until After Election

  “This report probably would not be viewed favorably by this administration. That, I think, precipitates the report not being released by November 3,” Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson told The Daily Beast.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  9/16/2020
  

  From MLK to Whistleblowers, the FBI’s Trouble with Dissidents

  The films MLK/FBI and Enemies of the State offer contrasting looks at government oppression.

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• SOURCE: IndieWire
  9/13/2020
  

  ‘MLK/FBI’ Review: A Damning Look at J. Edgar Hoover’s Attempts to Destroy a Civil Rights Hero

  The most revealing takeaway from a new documentary on the FBI's campaign to take down Martin Luther King, Jr. isn’t that J. Edgar Hoover used every dirty machination at his disposal to take King down, but that most of the country seemed to think it was the right thing to do.

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• SOURCE: Orange County Register
  8/9/2020
  

  There’s Nothing New About Federal Meddling In Protest Movements

  by Brian Bensimon

  The FBI has a long history of acting more as a "national security" agency than a law enforcement body, targeting racial and ethnic minorities and leftist activists. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/5/2020
  

  Santae Tribble, Whose Wrongful Conviction Revealed FBI Forensic Hair Match Flaws, Dies at 59

  Legal experts said Tribble’s case and other wrongful convictions forced authorities to abandon blame of rogue FBI examiners or bad apples for systemic human error repeated over decades.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/26/2020
  

  The FBI Has a History of Targeting Black Activists. That's Still True Today

  The FBI has long disrupted and discredited civil rights leaders. It should put its authorities to better use by holding officers accountable.

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• SOURCE: Viewpoint
  6/9/2020
  

  Wanted: An End to Police Terror

  by Stuart Schrader

  Radical activists have long used the "Wanted" poster as a subversive strategy to advertise the crimes of police. The author asks if today's activists should move past a political rhetoric that accepts punishment and incarceration as necessary aspects of society. 

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  6/2/2020
  

  A Short History of U.S. Law Enforcement Infiltrating Protests

  It is a historical fact that law enforcement frequently infiltrates progressive political movements using agent provocateurs who urge others to engage in violence.