I was talking to our friend Edwin the other day. The major organization of black business in his time was the National Negro Business League—those folks were not talking about handouts from white people. I didn’t understand half of what they were talking about, but it was like I had arrived in the promised land. [4] The Black Panther Party was first established in Oakland, California, after the 1966 killing of an unarmed black teen by police. [12] He's talking about Fred Hampton, the 21-year-old chairman of the Illinois Panthers.

Source: Huffington Post April 10, 2019 07:52 UTC