Still Black, Still Strong : Survivors of the War Against Black Revolutionaries

by Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu-Jamal

• ISBN13: 9780936756745
• ISBN10: 0936756748
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-02-01
• Publisher: Semiotext

Summary

Still Black Still Strongis an essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three leading thinkers and party activists who were jailed following the FBI'S 1969 mandate to destroy the organization "by any means possible." Still Black, Still Strongis partly based upon the 1989 videotape Framing The Panthersby producers Chris Bratton and Annie Goldson. It recounts the stories of Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur, all of whom were arrested and jailed during the COINTELPRO probe of the Black Panther Party. Dhoruba Bin Wahad, who organized chapters of the Black Panther Party in New York and along the Estern Seaboard and worked with tenants in Harlem and on drug rehabilitation in the Bronx, was accused of murdering two officers while still in his teens and imprisoned for 19 years. He always maintained his innocence and won his freedom by forcing the FBI to release thousands of classified documents proving that he had been framed. The justice department eventually rescinded Bin Wahad's conviction and he was released in 1990, seven months after the documentary premiered. Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist who headed the Black Panther free breakfast program for inner-city school children in Philadelphia, was also accused of the murder of an officer and sent on death-row, where he still is today. Assata Shakur was a college educated social worker in her twenties when she was accused of shooting a cop, then arrested and tortured and denied medical treatment. Her interview was conducted in Cuba where she has been exiled since her escape from a New Jersey women's prison in 1975. Bin Wahad, Shakur and Abu-Jamal offer a little-known history and an incisive analysis of the Black Panthers' original goals, which the U.S. Government has tried to distort and suppress. As one confidential, 1969, memo to J. Edgar Hoover put it, "The Negro youth and moderates must be made to understand that if they succumb to revolutionary teaching, they will be dead revolutionaries."

Author Biography

Sylvère Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Dhoruba Bin Wahad
War Within	9	(48)
Toward Rethinking Self-Defense	57	(20)
The Cutting Edge of Prison Technology	77	(26)
On Racism, Rap and Rebellion	103	(14)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Inter view from Death Row	117	(34)
The Prison-House of Nations	151	(18)
Court Transcript	169	(18)
The Man Malcolm	187	(6)
Panther Daze Remembered	193	(12)
Assata Shakur
Prisoner in the United States	205	(16)
Chronology of the Black Panther Party	221	(22)
From the FBI Panther Files	243	(29)
Notes on Contributors	272	(1)
The Campaign to Free Black Political Prisoners	272