Black History, the Black Panther Party, & The Ongoing People’s Struggle Today – Keeping it Real – Black History Month

To the everyday peoples of the entire world, let us learn from and change the course of history. This is our sacred duty, as human beings, to ourselves and to Mother Earth herself! It will not be easy and no sane person ever said it would be. But it can and must be done as we press on in this protracted and ongoing people�s struggle that has it roots in history!

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil / political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.) Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.