It's not exactly a requiem for a Black Panther, but it's something close.

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It was 1971 in Plainfield, New Jersey, where Ashanti Alston joined the Black Panther Party,

radicalized in the wake of the 1967 Newark riots and Malcolm X's assassination years earlier.

Ashanti would begin his life as an anarchist on that day, and it has guided his every step through the Black Panther Party,

then the Black Liberation Army, his incarceration, and his work honoring the sacrifice of political prisoners in the name of Black liberation with the Jericho movement. So it was that in January of 2023, Ashanti sat down with Jay to reconcile

with his history as a black anarchist on this episode of The Best of Black History Year.

In 1966, while Marvel Comics was debuting their first black superhero, the Black Panther,

the world was also introduced to one of the most influential black power organizations

of all time, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.

The black nationalist group rose in direct opposition to the police brutality that pummeled members of non-violent civil rights

organizations. They demanded citizenship rights as well as economic and political power

for our people, and they stopped in nothing

to ensure it. This is Jay from Push Black, and you're listening to Black History Year.

Created in the segregated and poverty-stricken streets of Oakland by Huey Newton and Bobby Seals,

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