Today in Labor History March 20, 2000: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, was arrested for murdering a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. Al-Amin had been a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers. He once said that “violence is as American as cherry pie.” Al-Amin denied shooting the deputy. His fingerprints were not found on the murder weapon. He had no gunshot wounds, though officers who were present at the shootout claimed that the suspect had been hit and wounded. Another man, Otis Jackson, later confessed to being the shooter, but the authorities have repeatedly denied Al-Amin’s requests for a retrial. He is now serving a life sentence. He had been at Florence supermax, under a gag order preventing interviews with journalists. In 2014, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. He is now at the U.S. Penitentiary, Tucson. In April 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal from al-Amin. He died on November 25, 2025.

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Black Panther Park opens in Seattle. It has been in the works for 8 years now. TL:dR version: Its all about building community

https://southseattleemerald.org/community/2026/03/16/murals-and-memories-new-black-panther-park-opens-in-skyway

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Murals and Memories: New Black Panther Park Opens in Skyway

Through Susan Fried's photos, families gather in Skyway as nine murals honoring the Black Panther Party debut at Black Panther Park after years of community work.

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Kamau Sadiki zum 73. Geburtstag

Das ehemalige Mitglied der Black Panther Party und der Black Liberation Front wurde am 23. Februar 73 Jahre alt. Auch er wird seit vielen Jahren trotz schwerer Erkrankung von der US-Justiz gefangengehalten.

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Today in Labor History March 5 1968: The first Chicano student walkout in East Lost Angeles occurred on this date. The Walkouts, or Chicano Blowouts, occurred throughout 1968 in protest of unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. Chicanos were often in classes of 40 students. Teachers often treated them with contempt. Drop-out rates were high. At Garfield High School, 58% of Chicano students dropped out each year. Thousands of students participated in the Blowouts. On March 4, 1968, J. Edgar Hoover sent out a memo to law enforcement, nationwide, warning them to be extra vigilant against “nationalist” movements in “minority” communities. Harry Gamboa Jr., one of the organizers of the first walkout, was placed on the list of 100 Most Dangerous & Violent Subversives, by the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, along with Angela Davis & Eldridge Cleaver.

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