Now that story finds echoes in a powerful exhibition of photographs of the timeA group of girls pose with schoolbags stencilled with the words “Black Power”. A young Indian man, Farrukh Dhondy, a teacher and member of the British Black Panthers, stands defiantly outside his recently firebombed home, holding the newspaper that details the bombing. Now the black power movement, and in particular the British Black Panthers, find themselves back in the spotlight. “You have to remember that the police and establishment really considered the British Black Panthers a threat. They were considered a serious intellectual threat.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Another still from Guerrilla, with Rory Kinnear, left, and Daniel Mays as police targeting British Black Power.

Source: The Guardian April 09, 2017 06:00 UTC