Author Archives: Seth McMillan
The AFRO Tribute to President Obama
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AME Church Celebrates Bicentennial
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AFRO Exclusive Interview with Huey P. Newton
Excerpts AFRO: Huey, to begin with, how long have you been in Cuba? NEWTON: Approximately one year. AFRO: Did you come here immediately from California? NEWTON: I would rather not talk about my excursion…my getting here. AFRO: What has life been like for you and your family since you have been here? NEWTON: The Cuban […]
Huey P. Newton ready to come home
HAVANA–Huey P. Newton, the 34-year-old co-founder of the Black Panther Party who has been in exile in Cuba for more than a year, is now awaiting the okay from his lawyers to return to return to the United States and stand trial for a bizarre string of violent crimes. In an hour-long interview here, Newton […]
HUEY P. NEWTON
Born in Monroe, La. in 1942. Growing up in Oakland, he met Bobby Seale while they were student activists at Merritt Junior College during the early 1960s. He and Seale co-founded the Black Panther Party, with Seale as chairman and Newton as Minister of Defense. Newton was sent to prison in 1967 for manslaughter after […]
Malcolm-X
Liberation not integration was Malcolm X’s unequivocal message. It was one born from bitter experience at the hands of white America, beginning in early childhood. Born May 19, 1925 in Omaha, NE, Malcolm X (who changed his last name from Little to X in his 20s), received his first lessons in nationalism from his minister […]
The Black Panthers
They were not only young and angry, but thought they could change the world. And in the course of 10 years, they did. Aarmed with sincerity, the words of revolutionaries such as Mao Tse-Tung and Malcolm X, law books, and rifles, The Black Panther Party fed the hungry, protected the weak from racist police, and […]