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Panthers Struggled for “Global Justice”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
03 Sep 2018
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The Black Panther Party “saw the world through a lens of global justice,” said Robyn Spencer, author of the new book, The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland. “They connected themselves to the anti-apartheid movement, to anti-colonial struggles, and saw that as part and parcel to the struggle in the United States,” said Spencer, an associate professor of history at Lehman College, in New York City.

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