'We Used to Own the Bronx,' by Eve Pell Aug 6, 2009
Along the way, she marries and divorces twice, raises three sons, hangs out with activist lawyer Fay Stender, flirts with Eldridge Cleaver and exchanges a furtive kiss with George Jackson. She discovers that the left is as morally complicated as the right but keeps her commitment to fighting injustice with her words. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Nat Hentoff's Unorthodox Libertarianism Aug 6, 2009
He also kept company with Eldridge Cleaver and Malcolm X. He describes the latter as very thoughtful and insists that he was moving toward a mainstream integrationist position at the time of his assassination. But Hentoff was no Tom Hayden radical. (The American Conservative)
Man credits sweater for Hemingway contest win Jul 27, 2009
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. (Fresno Bee)
Letter: Let's eliminate public health care for politicians Jun 4, 2009
snakespeak wrote on Jun 3, 2009 9:58 AM:" Eldridge Cleaver, the late revolutionary, advocated going to Washington and decapitating every member of Congress, displaying their heads on poles around the rotunda. After we take away their health care, we ought to follow through with Cleaver's plan. I'd like to see them have their heads re-attached if they didn't have health insurance. In the meantime, they couldn't spend the future earnings of our grandchildren bailing out the shadowy super rich. ".... (Montana Standard, MT)
Pirkle Jones; photographer depicted migrants, activists Mar 27, 2009
In 1968 Baruch became a friend of Kathleen Cleaver, the wife of the Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, through their work with the Peace and Freedom Party. From July to October 1968, Mr. Jones and Baruch photographed Black Panthers in the Bay Area with the stated goal of promoting a better understanding of the party. (Boston Globe)
Truth vs. power, 40 years later Mar 13, 2009
Authorities there were accustomed to sheltering international left-wing fugitives -- Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver would live there for several years -- and hosting an anti-authoritarian film made by dissident Europeans was an opportunity not to miss. Without much money, much time or access to first-rate equipment, Costa-Gavras had to improvise his style on the fly. (Salon)
