Introduction On October 15, 1966, two young Black men in Oakland, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, sat down and drafted a 10-Point political program for the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (later the Black Panther Party). It opened with a centuries-long demand...
Introduction Shortly after midnight on the morning of September 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died in his bed in his residence in the Zhongnanhai compound in central Beijing, in the company of members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC). He had...
Introduction A foreign national spoke out against a country he accused of killing his family. After fleeing that country to escape persecution, the U.S. government arrested him and tried to deport him. The U.S. government was protective of its relationship with the...
Editor's note: This is the second entry in our two-part series on the politics of Salsa, the first of which was published on the 50th anniversary of the famous Fania All-Stars concert, “Live at Yankee Stadium.” Introduction Any discussion of the politics of Salsa has...