
Ericka Huggins: Do the Black Panthers have lessons for Black Lives Matter?
The Interview
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Women of the Black Panther Party
I'm very interested by that phrase, self-defense. Because of course, we're talking about the 1960s and Dr. Martin Luther King was leading a civil rights movement. His movement was very much based on the notion of non-violent resistance. I think if we look at the violent way in which this country, the United States, was conceived, I can't think of anything more violent than owning humans. That is what it was about. And that's the legacy that I want to uphold.
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