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The Black Panther Party of 1966 and the New United Panther Movement: Continuity and Renewal

The New Afrikan Black Panther Party developed first from within the prisons of Amerika and is now building programs and organizations in communities across the country. Their concept… Details

Digging Up The Past

Hello, https://www.usfca.edu/news/digging-the-past Nice write -up from USF about one of our former interns and her family history contained within the Freedom Archives. Follow… Details

No Justice No Peace

Experiences at the Archives, From the Archives..., Liberation Struggles, Youth

Hello, This clip is taken from a 1988 speech by Ahmed Obafemi of the New Afrikan People’s Organization in San Francisco. Obafemi speaks of the death of Michael Griffith, a Black… Details

The Story of Ahmed Evans and the Glenville Shootout

From the Archives..., Prison and Political Prisoners

Part 2 in our blog series on histories of resistance to racist police violence, as depicted in the pages of The Movement newspaper.

By the summer of 1968, tensions had been mounting between

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The Story of the TSU Five

Experiences at the Archives, From the Archives..., Liberation Struggles, Youth

Hello, This multi part blog series highlights significant but relatively unknown moments of resistance to racist police violence as depicted in the pages of The Movement. When looking… Details

New Arrivals at the Freedom Archives

From the Archives..., Liberation Struggles, Youth

Hello, Over the summer we’ve been going through old piles, re-organizing the archive space and re-arranging book shelves. Needless to say we found some cool stuff.
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The Political Thought of Afeni Shakur

COINTELPRO, Experiences at the Archives, From the Archives..., Important Figures, Liberation Struggles

Afeni Shakur, known to most of us as rap icon Tupac Shakur’s mother, passed away last month (2^nd May 2016). In his 1995 song “Dear Mama”, Tupac Shakur speaks about the deep appreciation… Details

Seize the Time

From the Archives..., Liberation Struggles, Prison and Political Prisoners

Hello, We’re excited to announce the full digitization of the periodical Seize The Time, published by a Marxist-Leninist organization of the same name that grew out of the revolutionary… Details