Statement from Assata Shakur from July 2007.

Voiced by Sirena Riley

Produced by Weyland McKenzie - Witter

Featuring Music from Samson

We end series 1 with a reimagining of Assata's Shakur's Poem The Tradition.

Assata is voiced by Sirena Riley

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A day after the Panther 21 organized this unprecedented hearing, which forced the judiciary to tacitly admit to its conspiracy to imprison poor people of color through bail, they were back in criminal court, standing trial for allegedly conspiring against the state.

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In this episode we pay a visit to the Women of the Black Panther Party Mural in West Oakland and talk with Curator Jilchristina Vest about the Mural.

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In this episode we look at the remarkable Altheia Jones -Lecointe the Trinidadian born former member of the British Black Panther Movement and her sister Beverly Jones.

Music : Womb Love by Teshay Makeda

Artwork by Elfreda Fayoka

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Afeni Shakur showed up 15 minutes late in October of 69. The judge revokes her bail.

"About noon on the 1st of October 1970, the inmates of the Queens house of detention, Long Island city, Queens, Nyc, NY seized seven prison guards as hostages and took control of a six story building.

Among the demands of the prisoners were the presence of Zayd Shakur, Ny BPP deputy minister of information a jury of their peers for members of the NY panther 21 who are presently on trial in NYC and distribution of BPP literature throughout the prison,

The prisoners were led by six inmates including three members of the BPP, one of whom was identified and Lumumba Shakur, a member of the panther 21. " - cointelpro surveillance document

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With the help of Prof Orisanmi Burton & Lawyer Gerald Lefcourt, we continue the story of the Panther 21 trial. The 21 were busted on April 2nd 1969 in multiple pre-dawn raids carried out by the NYPD

Jeffery Haas and Flint Taylor detail their legal struggle against the Chicago PD and the FBI following the assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark

In Today's episode, Frank B Wilderson III reads from his memoir "Incognegro". In this excerpt a 13 year old Frank visits the Chicago Panther pad just days after the assassination of Chairman Fred Hampton and Mark Clark

Jeffery Haas & Flint Taylor are lawyers for the movement. In the late 60's they were the lawyers for Fred Hampton and the Chicago Panthers. In this episode they describe the night of the assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark from their perspective.

Music by LOWU