Lords Of The Revolution
Thursday, August 13, 2009
This is a 4 part series on VH1.
* Mohammad Ali
* Cheech & Chong
* The Black Panthers
* Timothy Leary
THE BLACK PANTHERS
Their in-your-face form of protest against the establishment had never been seen before. Carrying weapons, marching in formation, and... helping the poor. Helping the disenfranchised.
I was in high school at the time and I was loving it. I was an anti-authority junior rebel and was pretty stoked when someone else bucked the system on such a grand scale in the fight for equality.
After Huey Newton and Bobby Seale went to jail, Eldridge Cleaver moved to the forefront of the Black Panthers. His wife, Kathleen Cleaver was also a force. They all became heroes to hippies. (I've always hated that word.) Anyway, you may enjoy these programs.
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