Re-Seizing the Time

What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library

(2006) Rated: Unrated

US DVD release date: 10 October 2006 (Eclectic DVD Dist.)

[15 January 2007]

by Mark Reynolds

For all the gains we’ve made in electoral politics and community leadership, there has yet to be a successor to the Black Panther Party as a nationally organized, politically oriented body speaking out and working on the vanguard in the name of black progress, directly confronting and challenging the powers-that-be.
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