Tag Archives: Huey Newton
Exile on Hate Street
The news is recently filled with images of protests triggered by the murders of black teens by white police. However, reports about the similarities between these happenings and the Civil Rights protests 50 years ago are tightly controlled and focused on fantasies of reconciliation without retribution. It’s as if we’re suddenly all supposed to wake [...]
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Tagged civil rights, Huey Newton, Kidnapping, KKK, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP, Robert Franklin Williams
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Back in Black: Agnes Varda’s Panthers
The French filmmaker Agnes Varda’s candid camera work, and the natural performances and settings in her narrative films and documentaries influenced no less than Jean-Luc Godard. As a result, Varda is considered to be one of the key influences in the development of the French New Wave. In 1968, Varda traveled to America to shoot [...]
Posted in Cinema, Counter Culture, revolution
Tagged 1968, Agnes Varda, Black Panthers, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Free Huey, H. Rap Brown, Huey Newton, revolution, setup, Stokely Carmichael
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