San Diego Black Panthers Revive Under Trump, Cite Black-Brown Solidarity
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Demonstrators wearing the insignia of the New Black Panthers Party protest the shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, July 9, 2016. | Photo: Reuters
“We want land. We want bread. We want housing, education and justice and peace,” Black Panther Party chairman Henry Wallace said.
“All power to the people!” the crowd chanted, the sea of black berets bobbing in unison.
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It was a meeting of San Diego’s revived chapter of the Black Panther Party, a militant, socialist Black liberation group that was active in the 1960s and 70s.
The group is now reorganizing, decades later, in the face of the Trump administration.
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