| Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the U.S. War Against Black Revolutionaries Contributor(s): Bin Wahad, Dhoruba (Author), Shakur, Assata (Author), Abu-Jamal, Mumia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0936756748 ISBN-13: 9780936756745 Publisher: Semiotext(e) OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 322.420 |
| LCCN: 2002510804 |
| Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.5" W x 6.9" (0.50 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 The justice department eventually rescinded Bin Wahad's conviction and he was released in 1990, seven months after the documentary premiered.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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lotringer, Sylvere: - Sylvère Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.Kraus, Chris: - Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including I Love Dick and Summer of Hate; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography. She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles. |