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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">=<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">diss<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><a href="https://archive.org/stream/WarAgainstThePanthersAStudyOfRepressionInAmerica/WATP_djvu.txt">https://archive.org/stream/WarAgainstThePanthersAStudyOfRepressionInAmerica/WATP_djvu.txt</a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">the nation mag<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">..In early 1974 the French writer Jean Genet phoned the Ramparts office and got Horowitz on the line. Genet, who had taken up the Black Panther cause in the Bay Area, needed a translator. Might Ramparts provide one? One thing led to another, and it wasn't long before Horowitz found himself in the Oakland penthouse of Panther leader Huey Newton, who had just returned from China. A heated argument about the revolutionary virtues of Maoism erupted between Horowitz and Newton, and the latter concluded the debate on a conciliatory note. Horowitz was delighted: "I had found a political soul mate," he recalls.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">Horowitz's intellectual seduction by Newton constitutes some of the most fascinating pages in Radical Son. Newton made Horowitz his confidant, took him to glitzy parties and published his essays in the Panthers' official newspaper. When Newton asked him to raise money for a new Panther school in Oakland, Horowitz eagerly obliged by creating a tax-exempt foundation that eventually netted more than $100,000 for the project.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">Attaching himself to the Bay Area Panthers in 1974 was, it turns out, a colossal mistake: Their heyday was over, and the leadership had become increasingly violent and deranged. The educator Herbert Kohl, who was then involved in several Panther education projects, warned Horowitz that Newton was abusing cocaine. ("He had a cold," Horowitz replied.) Uncomfortable being a white man in the upper ranks of the Panther hierarchy, Horowitz attempted to recruit qualified blacks to replace him, so he invited Troy Duster, a sociologist at UC-Berkeley, to meet Newton. But Duster was suspicious of Newton's mercurial behavior and fled. Horowitz then denounced Duster as something of a bourgeois "Uncle Tom." "I must have been insufferable," Horowitz says, reflecting on his younger self.<img src="http://www.scottgsherman.com/images/line.png" class="divider" style="margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" display="display" block="block" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">On July 22, 1974, Huey Newton shot a young prostitute, after which he fled to Cuba. "I should have left [the Panthers] then," Horowitz says. In fact, many of his black friends in the party did depart at that very moment--a turn of events that enraged Newton's successor, a striking, charismatic and voluble young woman named Elaine Brown, who, according to Horowitz, said the party was under attack and "the rats were leaving the ship." Horowitz says he felt trapped. When Brown asked him to recommend someone to oversee the party finances, he suggested Betty Van Patter, a 42-year-old bookkeeper who had worked at Ramparts. Van Patter, who was white, eagerly accepted the position. On December 13, 1974, she vanished. A month later, her body, with a massive head wound, was discovered in San Francisco Bay.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">It is a case, according to veteran Panther-watcher Kate Coleman, that has "haunted the Bay Area left for two decades." A lengthy investigation by Coleman revealed that Van Patter had discovered questionable activity--rackets, dope, prostitution--at a Panther-run bar in Oakland called the Lamp Post and had reportedly complained about it to Brown, who then fired her.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">Van Patter's death plunged Horowitz into "a really clinical depression," he says today. "For a good year, I woke up in tears every day because of Betty." What inspired the guilt was not simply that he'd recommended Van Patter to the Panthers but that he'd been too frightened to warn her about the dangers she faced. But he was in a bind: Van Patter, delighted to be employed by the Panthers, was completely enamored of Brown and wary of Horowitz, whom she did not trust. So he let her proceed with the job.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">"Today I can't even justify it," he says wearily. "I have no idea why I did it." Horowitz and I are seated in his office. The room is tense and completely silent, except for the sound of his hand nervously striking the table. His voice, normally firm and confident, sinks to a barely audible mumble.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">"It was inconceivable to me that the Panthers would kill Betty Van Patter," he whispers. "I was nervous about what was going on there, but if I told Betty what I actually felt, I was afraid that she would tell Elaine, and that Elaine would harm me or my children. I was completely unprotected."<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">If he could do it over again, what would he say to Van Patter?<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">"I would tell her flat out--get out of there," he replies. "But the consequences for me would have been awful. I didn't have any money. How was I going to move my family?"<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">Today, Tamara Baltar, Van Patter's daughter, does not consider Horowitz in any way responsible for her mother's death. "David didn't kill my mother, and David didn't participate in the killing of my mother," says Baltar, breaking a long silence on the case. Is there something curious about the fact that he holds himself responsible? "No," she replies. "I think I would, too, if I were him." Not until 1984, however, did Baltar, who was a leftist and a supporter of the Panthers, accept the view that they committed the crime. "David Horowitz kept at it from the beginning," she says. "And I was mad at him for keeping at it. But he kept at it."<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">In the late seventies, relying on his old Panther contacts, Horowitz quietly began to reconstruct the crime, and he was a primary source for a lengthy exposé on Newton's criminal activities that Kate Coleman published in New Times in 1978.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">"I stayed on the story," he says. "It's a minimal atonement."<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">For her part, Elaine Brown vehemently denies Horowitz's accusation that the Panthers were involved in the murder. "I didn't have anything to do with this woman's death," Brown insisted in a recent telephone interview, noting that no arrests have ever been made in the case. "White people," says Brown, "always want me to tell them about fucking Betty Van Patter, but not one person from The Nation has ever called to ask me who I think killed George Jackson." From her point of view, Horowitz and Coleman have waged a relentless vendetta against her. But the available evidence strongly suggests Panther involvement in the death of Betty Van Patter. In 1984, when Van Patter's family engaged the services of the renowned private detective Hal Lipset, he reported back, "You should have no doubt that your mother's death was Panther-related--that they killed her."<img src="http://www.scottgsherman.com/images/line.png" class="divider" style="margin: 30px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" display="display" block="block" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">In the wake of Betty Van Patter's death, Horowitz's life came apart. Surrounded by "personal darkness," he began a series of affairs, which led to the collapse of his marriage. He launched a new career, with Collier, as a dynastic biographer; eventually they would produce thick histories of the Rockefeller, Ford and Kennedy families. "Without question, David Horowitz was extremely traumatized by what happened with Betty Van Patter, as I think anyone would be," says Hugh Pearson, author of The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America. "As a result, David just totally went berserk with regard to the left-liberal community."<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">In 1979 Horowitz published an article in The Nation ["A Radical's Disenchantment," December 8] lashing radicals for their supposed moral indifference to repression and genocide in Vietnam and Cambodia. Old friends from the New Left began to fall away. In 1984 he cast a ballot for Ronald Reagan. In 1986 he informed a Berkeley audience: "You are in fact in league with the darkest and most reactionary forces of the modern world, whose legacies--as the record attests--are atrocities and oppression on a scale unknown in the human past." By 1989 Horowitz was comparing himself to Gifford Maxim, the Whittaker Chambers character in Lionel Trilling's novel The Middle of the Journey, an ex-Communist who confronted the radical tendencies of his time "with what he knew, from his experience, of the reality which lay behind the luminous words of the great promise." Horowitz had arrived at the final destination of his journey. Now, he ridicules the idea of utopia: "Every leftist should watch the Jerry Springer show," he says today. "How are you going to make a new world out of that material?"<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">=<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/search/?searchtype=All&query=huey+newton">https://www.c-span.org/search/?searchtype=All&query=huey+newton</a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">FEBRUARY 1, 1968<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">LAST AIRED JANUARY 3, 2017<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">Black Panther<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">, features a 1967 interview with party founder Huey Newton while he was in prison on murder charges, co-founder Bobby Seale reciting the Panther's 10-point program, and scenes from "Free Huey" demonstrations.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">412 VIEWSemThe Black Power Mixtape 19671975em<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">MAY 5, 2014<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">LAST AIRED JULY 20, 2014<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">Danny Glover, Kathleen Cleaver, and Brian Jones talked about the Black Power Movement and key participants like Stokley Carmichael, Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, and Huey P. Newton.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">652 VIEWSemThe Black Panther Partyem<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">MAY 17, 2008<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">LAST AIRED AUGUST 30, 2008<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">The Black Panther Party<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">Hilliard is the author of This Side of Glory and the co-editor of The Huey P. Newton Reader with Don Weise. He is the director of the Huey P. Newton Foundation.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">223 VIEWSemWaiting  Til The Midnight Hourem<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">SEPTEMBER 27, 2007<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">LAST AIRED JANUARY 19, 2008<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">Waiting 'Til The Midnight Hour<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">The author relays the rise of the Black Panthers and profiles leaders of the black power movement such as Huey P. Newton, Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">889 VIEWSemHuey  Spirit of the Pantherem<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">FEBRUARY 12, 2006<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">LAST AIRED OCTOBER 18, 2006<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">Huey: Spirit of the Panther<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">David Hilliard talked about his book Huey: Spirit of the Panther, published by Thunder's Mouth Press. It is the first authorized biography of Huey Newton (1942-1989), who founded the Black Panther Party in 1966 in Oakland, Calif. ... Hilliard was joined by Huey Newton's widow, Fredrika, to discuss his role as a family man and the personal struggles he dealt with during the last days of his life.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">  Fredrika Newton, President<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">631 VIEWSemThe Shadow of the Pantherem<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">---<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?191354-1/origins-black-panther-party">https://www.c-span.org/video/?191354-1/origins-black-panther-party</a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="video-page-title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: adelle, Georgia, Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(52, 73, 94);">Origins of the Black Panther Party In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the <a href="https://www.c-span.org/organization/?43937/Black-Panther-Party" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(41, 128, 185); transition: color 0.35s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Black Panther Party</a>, some of the founders talked about its origins. Topics included fighting oppression and police brutality and protesting the disarmament of the black community in California. They also talked about the many personalities in the early days and their efforts to gain universal health care and decent education and housing in black communities, and about the efforts to free founder Huey Newton from jail. After their presentations, the participants responded to audience members' questions.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?fredrikanewton" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(41, 128, 185); transition: color 0.35s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Fredrika Newton </a>is the widow of Huey P. Newton<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">---<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">AUGUST 3, 1994<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">LAST AIRED OCTOBER 18, 2006<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">The Shadow of the Panther<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">Hugh Pearson talked about his book The Shadow of the Panther, a history of the Black Panther movement founded by Huey Newton.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">810 VIEWSOrigins of the Black Panther Party<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">FEBRUARY 18, 2006<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">LAST AIRED OCTOBER 15, 2006<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">Origins of the Black Panther Party<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">They also talked about the many personalities in the early days and their efforts to gain universal health care and decent education and housing in black communities, and about the efforts to free founder Huey Newton from jail. ... Fredrika Newton is the widow of Huey P. Newton<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">  Fredrika Newton, President<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-align="text-align" justify="justify" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color">