'Chicago 10' re-creates fallout from '68 convention Aug 26, 2008
But when Eldridge Cleaver, another Panther leader and author of Soul on Ice, couldn't make it, they invited Seale. He gave a couple of speeches, got on a plane and left town before most of the mayhem happened the Kill the Pigs chants and the tear gas and the clubbings. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
READERS WRITE Jul 4, 2008
On this Fourth of July, I am reminded of the late Eldridge Cleaver, who once said, "I'd rather be in jail in America than free anywhere else.". HORACE COPRIDGE. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
When the Left Was Right May 24, 2008
Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver asked Oglesby to run as his vice-presidential candidate on the 1968 Peace and Freedom Party ticket. Carl, in a hiccup of realpolitik, said no. But there had been common concerns. (The American Conservative)
Book Review | Nixonland: 'Nixonland': A romp through an era's tumults May 10, 2008
Do we need another waist-deep wallow in the 1960s, ensconcing us cheek by jowl with Frank Rizzo and Eldridge Cleaver, Sam Yorty and Mark Rudd, Lester Maddox and Herbert Marcuse and other long-forgotten bit players in a period drama. Do we need to be reminded of that era's gaseous juvenophilia, like Time magazine's celebration of Americans 25 or younger as 1967's "Man of the Year": "This is not just a new generation, but a new kind of generation. In the omphalocentric process of self-construction... (International Herald Tribune)
With friends like these . . . Apr 19, 2008
Some American popular radicals had fled to business (Jerry Rubin) or to the religious right (Eldridge Cleaver), and former Ramparts editor and Black Panther supporter David Horovitz was to mount a 1987 conference, Second Thoughts, at which former 60s radicals such as Michael Medved and PJ O'Rourke confessed and renounced their errors ... Like Eldridge Cleaver, the neocons argued that the welfare state had turned the poor into parasites; James Q Wilson asserts that, in the black community,... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Being a part of two worlds Mar 3, 2008
Suddenly, the graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School was transformed into the female equivalent of Eldridge Cleaver. But what gives the commentators the right to lecture someone else let alone someone with a different life experience about how she should feel about her country. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
Building a strong community at MizpahPosted 4 hours, 18 minutes ago. Feb 13, 2008
His Wall of Respect included portraits of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Eldridge Cleaver, Marcus Garvey, Charles Lloyd, Stokely Carmichael, Leroy Jones, Claudia Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, and H. Rap Brown. There was also a black Christ painted there. (Lima News, OH)
Black August Starring CSI's Gary Dourdan: One Man's Fight Against a System Out to Destroy Him Jan 10, 2008
Part of a legacy that includes Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton and Angela Davis, Jacksons writings made him both a best-selling author and a lightning rod for controversy in one of Americas most politically polarized eras. In Black August, Jackson and Dryer work below the prison radar to edit a book based on his letters. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
More of this story Jan 5, 2008
Black Panthers on FilmFor a Black Panther primer - Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, the Party's '60s-era Ten-Point Program, the felled Fred Hampton, and the San Francisco 8 - check out the three-day film festival "All Power to the People" at REDCAT, Jan. 10-12. The series includes newsreels, documentaries and films, but celluloid isn't the only component. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Ex-Black Panther sues Emory professor over FBI snitch claim Dec 14, 2007
Elaine Brown, who led the organization from 1974 to 1977, has filed a lawsuit against Kathleen Cleaver, ex-wife of the late Panthers spokesman Eldridge Cleaver. RELATED. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Boomer class Dec 4, 2007
Eldridge Cleaver, "The White Race and Its Heroes" from Soul on Ice (1968). Jimmy Carter, "Crisis of Confidence Speech," 1979. (USA Today -- News)
Lawrence Hill's novel takes him back to roots of his ancestry Nov 14, 2007
Eldridge Cleaver and Alex Haley a bit later. I devoured everybody. (Boston Globe)
ISSUES & IDEAS Nov 12, 2007
Miami Herald editors, writers question Book Fair authors - 11/11/2007 - MiamiHerald (The Miami Herald)
'Black Panther Rank & File' exhibit Nov 8, 2007
One of the most memorable law enforcement attacks on the group occurred in 1968 when dozens of Oakland police fired upon two of the group's more prominent members, Bobby Hutton and Eldridge Cleaver, who were hiding in the basement of a house. Hutton was killed in the melee; Cleaver was seriously injured. (SunSpot.net)
Security to sit on the chip Aug 16, 2007
Too much agreement kills a chat - Eldridge Cleaver. Thursday August 16, 2007. (Inquirer)
He mixed global salvation and soapmaking Jul 27, 2007
Lamm also interviews a somewhat bemused Eldridge Cleaver, the former Black Panther, who speaks of Bronner with wary approval. Son couldn't be more different from father. (Boston Globe)
The price of the ticket Jul 14, 2007
As the 60s progressed, an increasingly vociferous Baldwin appeared keen to adopt a public position in all his writings, as though he were trying to defuse some of the criticism that was being levelled against him, particularly from the African-American community and writers such as Eldridge Cleaver and Amiri Baraka. He seems to have been stung into becoming not just a witness, but a mouthpiece. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Levitate the Pentagon Jun 19, 2007
Hippies and blacks were uniting against the Man (the white, conservative system) - but unfortunately there was not a lot of communal action, as blacks increasingly started feeling themselves members of a separate nation led by Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale and Stokely Carmichael. The year 1967 in San Francisco, London and Amsterdam was not exactly multi-racial: it was in essence a white phenomenon. (Asia Times Online)
Howard Stern next? Apr 14, 2007
What do you expect from a guy who was fired from a radio station in Stockton in 1968 for having an "Eldridge Cleaver Look-Alike Contest?"One can only hope that Howard Stern will be the next to go. Sean BoydFresno. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
The last shots for 'The Sopranos' Apr 7, 2007
That conversation takes place at the premiere party for "Cleaver," the mob/slasher film that Christopher (Michael Imperioli) has rather improbably managed to get made, despite a pesky title issue involving the Eldridge Cleaver estate. The episode boasts plenty of deftly humorous only-in-"Sopranos" touches: Christopher high-handedly offering to introduce Tony to "Danny," the third (or is he the fourth. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Congress shares blame for Walter Reed mess Feb 27, 2007
And even Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panther Party radical who was wrong about almost everything, was quite right in this context when he observed, If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. . (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Hilton Als on “Dutchman” Jan 30, 2007
(Eldridge Cleaver described the soul-lacerating effects of that history four years later, in his memoir, Soul on Ice : The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death. Men die for freedom but black men die for white women, who are the symbol of freedom. (New Yorker)
Community jolted by ex-Panthers' arrests Jan 25, 2007
It also is where former Black Panther and writer Eldridge Cleaver was buried after his death in 1998. "I always say that it's all artists and soreheads," said novelist Michelle Huneven, an Altadena native. (Los Angeles Times)
'70s in the Bay Area -- era of radical violence Jan 24, 2007
The other side, led by Eldridge Cleaver, wanted a "more radical approach" to fight what they felt was "massive repression being levied against the party," Jones said. But the Black Liberation Army didn't spring suddenly from a fractious meeting at Panther headquarters in Oakland. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Amid uncertainty over Castro Cuba dusts off military show Nov 29, 2006
" Still, he said he had no regrets about hijacking the plane. "I was a soldier in the war for black liberation," he said. A decade ago, Times Books published his memoirs, "Long Time Gone," which told of his coming of age on Oakland's streets and of joining the Black Panthers when he was 37, rising to become a bodyguard for leader Eldridge Cleaver. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. They called for an end to police... (CubaNet)
William Lee Brent; hijacked plane to Cuba Nov 18, 2006
He entered the group's inner circle and became a Panther spokesman and bodyguard to Eldridge Cleaver. In November 1968, after a gas station robbery in San Francisco, Mr. Brent was involved in a drug-fueled shootout with police that left two officers severely wounded. (Boston Globe)
Black Panthers: A legacy of militancy Oct 24, 2006
As Eldridge Cleaver, a former panther and author of "Soul on Ice," explained in an interview a year before his death: "As it was, [the U.S. government] chopped off the head [of the Black liberation movement] and left the body there armed. That's why all these young bloods are out there now; they've got the rhetoric but are without the political direction... and they've got the guns.". Newton, according to fellow panther David Hilliard, became despondent and succumbed to cocaine and heroin... (MSNBC -- Race)
OAKLANDBlack Panthers' legacy at 40 Oct 12, 2006
" Leaders required party members to volunteer long hours and memorize 36 books on black history and socialism. They served food to hungry children in a 5 a.m. breakfast program in local churches, sold the party's official newspaper, and registered voters. They offered groceries and medical care to the poor, drove people to the hospital in a Panther ambulance and took families by bus to visited incarcerated loved ones. Several members of the organization -- Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Inside the Mets and Yanks beat Sep 20, 2006
I looked back at Randolph whose fine career as a player began in 1975, the year Eldridge Cleaver returned from exile in Cuba and renounced the Black Panthers and sheepishly thanked him, dropping my notepad as I half-raised a fist of my own. Back in the clubhouse, I got more of the same treatment. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
The years of writing magically Aug 20, 2006
In the tapestry of reportage that makes up The White Album, she moves in strange circles, crossing paths in her reportage with Eldridge Cleaver and Huey Newton of the Black Panthers and Linda Kasabian, a hippy girl who had become an acolyte of Charles Manson. The killing of actress Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanksi, and five others, by the Manson Family brought all that Hollywood paranoia to a head. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
All-American Anarchists Jun 1, 2006
In one typical passage, Kauffman ambles from fondly musing on the Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. to a meditation on football and the American spirit. (The American Conservative)
Gordon Parks' unique American perspective Mar 8, 2006
" Parks joined Life magazine in 1948 for the odd counter-assignments of shooting gang wars in Harlem and fashion in Paris. His photo of gang leader Red Jackson captured a myriad of emotions, from despair to determination. His work for Life documented the Black Revolution of the 1960s in both words and pictures, with pieces on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Eldridge Cleaver. An enormous retrospective of his life's work, Half Past Autumn, toured the country for seven years, starting in... (USA Today)
