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Defending Our Communities, Defending Our Lives – Former Women Political Prisoners Speak Out for International Women’s History Month

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Panthers After the Party: A Conversation on Black Power Afterlives

The Black Panther Party (BPP) has made an undeniable impact on the iconography, language, culture and practice of revolutionary struggles since the mid-1960s. Join former BPP members/political… Details

Born on the MOVE

This is a unique Bay Area chance to meet Mike and Debbie Africa (from the MOVE organization) and their son Mike Jr. Mike and Debbie spent over 40 years in prison in Pennsylvania and were… Details

Honoring Fred Hampton on the 50th Anniversary of his Murder

Join Jeff Haas & Emory Douglas and the Freedom Archives for this Howard Zinn Book Fair event! 50 years ago Chicago police with FBI support raided Black Panther Fred Hampton’s Chicago… Details

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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