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The Side of the Black Panthers That's Been Virtually Ignored: Their Fight for Healthcare Justice

Angola 3 News, AlterNet. December 21, 2011.

In her new book, Columbia professor Alondra Nelson documents the multifaceted (and under-reported) health activism of the Panthers.

What the FBI's Murder of a Black Panther Can Teach Us 40 Years Later

Jeffrey Haas, The Nation. December 2, 2009.

The legacy of Fred Hampton, who was assassinated under COINTELPRO in 1969, should be our demand that U.S. officials be held accountable when they break the law.

"Angola is Still a Plantation": Fighting Back Against Legacies of Slavery

Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn. June 12, 2008.

At Louisiana's notorious Angola Prison, which sits on a former slave plantation, prisoners are doing more than surviving. They are organizing.

April 4, 1968: The Moment That Made Me a Radical

Michael C. Dawson, The Root. April 4, 2008.

Forty years ago, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. radicalized a generation of African Americans.

"The Angola 3": Ex-Black Panthers Kept in Solitary Confinement for Over Three Decades [VIDEO]

Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 19, 2008.

In the scheme of human rights and the U.S. criminal justice system, the case of the "Angola 3" is one of the great injustices of our time.