An essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three
leading thinkers and party activists who were jailed following the FBI'S
1969 mandate to destroy the organization "by any means possible."Still
Black, Still Strong is partly based upon the 1989 videotape Framing The
Panthers by producers Chris Bratton and Annie Goldson. It recounts the
stories of Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur, all of
whom were arrested and jailed during the COINTELPRO probe of the Black
Panther Party. Dhoruba Bin Wahad, who organized chapters of the Black
Panther Party in New York and along the Estern Seaboard and worked with
tenants in Harlem and on drug rehabilitation in the Bronx, was accused
of murdering two officers while still in his teens and imprisoned for 19
years.
He always maintained his innocence and won his freedom
by forcing the FBI to release thousands of classified documents proving
that he had been framed. The justice department eventually rescinded Bin
Wahad's conviction and he was released in 1990, seven months after the
documentary premiered. Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist who headed the
Black Panther free breakfast program for inner-city school children in
Philadelphia, was also accused of the murder of an officer and sent on
death-row, where he still is today.
Assata Shakur was a
college educated social worker in her twenties when she was accused of
shooting a cop, then arrested and tortured and denied medical treatment.
Her interview was conducted in Cuba where she has been exiled since her
escape from a New Jersey women's prison in 1975. Bin Wahad, Shakur
and Abu-Jamal offer a little-known history and an incisive analysis of
the Black Panthers' original goals, which the U.S.
Government
has tried to distort and suppress. As one confidential, 1969, memo to J.
Edgar Hoover put it, "The Negro youth and moderates must be made to
understand that if they succumb to revolutionary teaching, they will be
dead revolutionaries."
Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the U.S. War Against Black Revolutionaries - Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Assata Shakur & Mumia Abu-Jamal
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