On this episode of The Parley in All Blue, Mark is joined by Curtis Austin, an associate professor at Arizona State University where he focuses on civil rights and black power movements. This episode advances the history of black empowerment from our previous episode with Taylor Branch, which focused on civil rights. This episode focuses on black power, the Black Power Movement, and the vanguard of the Revolution, which is the Black Panther Party. 

Check out: Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party by Curtis J. Austin 

Ted Talk: The Real Story of the Black Panther Party

Highlights from the episode:

• What was the Black Panther Party? 4:30
• Police Violence, 9:54
• Who were the founders of the Black Panther Party?  13:52
• The Black Panther Party believed in self defense, 20:35
• Robert Williams and his role in the Black Panther Party, 36:10

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