ion? Whether it was because of Black History Month or Beyonce's much-talked-about Super Bowl performance, where the Houston singer evoked images of the Black Panthers, somehow they became of interest again in the mainstream. At the same time PBS aired Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of t

ent of it. Coming of age in the 1960s and being profoundly inspired and affected by the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, I was well aware of the Black Panthers, SDS and other revolutionary groups dedicated to change what they called, "the status quo of the subjugation of the disenfranchise in America." But

the history pointed to above. The article stated that newly released FBI documents show Bill Russell was being shadowed by the for possible ties to the Black Panthers and allegedly gambling on hoop games. Opinion: D.C. Should Heed Pleas of Outgoing Police Chief Robert J. Contee III The Washington Post (04/28, Ed

he had supposedly killed a Black Panther, the body of which could not be found, and the department thought that he was going to launch an attack on the Black Panthers. Manson was a very ready tool, apparently, because he did have some racial hatred and he wanted to vent it. But they hadn't anticipated him attack

hreat. Very Truly Yours, James L. Browning, Jr. United States Attorney It would later be revealed that the FBI had published pamphlets in the name of the Black Panthers, advocating the killing of cops, and that an FBI file on Groucho Marx had indeed been started, and he actually was labeled a “national security risk.