Today, we have the good fortunate to be in conversation with 2 committed brothers whose long history of Black Resistance dates back to the revolutionary struggles of the 1960s , 70s & 80s. Listen and take note as they share their memories & reflections on the people, Movement & time when young people truly believed revolution was possible in their lifetime. 

HAROLD TAYLOR is a veteran member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party. He joined the Party in 1967 & although things fell apart, he has maintained his Love for the People & serving the People. I once heard him say “i didn’t join the BPP to harm Black people” & so despite much of what happened then & is happening now his statement has always stuck with me & i wish more of us felt that way. 

In the 1973, Harold was among other Panthers who were captured, tortured & survived days of brutal police violence in a case that was eventually dismissed due to their abuse & coerced testimony - you can learn about that case & Black Resistance history in the documentary “Legacy of Torture: The War Against the Black Liberation Movement” that tells their story;

In 2007, Harold was rearrested/recharged along with 7 of comrade-brothers in this same case that became known as the SF8

that case was also eventually dismissed - with 2 defendants/PPOWs at the time, pleading to lesser charges

WILLIE SUNDIATA TATE - is one of the San Quentin 6 - along David Johnson, Hugo Yogi Pinell, Johnny Spain, Luiz Bato Talamantez & Fleeta Drumgo - unjustly charged w/assault & murder of (3 prison guards/2 white prisoners) following the August 21, 1971 murder of George Jackson. In a 16-month trial - the longest in the state's history at the time - of the 6, 1 was convicted of murder, 2 were convicted of assault on prison guards, & 3 were acquitted of all charges. Decades later, Hugo Pinell remained behind the wall held in solitary confinement until 2015 when he was assassinated just weeks after being released into general population. 

THIS SHOW IS DEDICATED TO THOSE BLACK/NEW AFRIKAN PPOWs WHO COLLECTIVELY SERVED 900+ YEARS OF UNJUST IMPRISONMENT

STILL IMPRISONED 

Imam Jamil Al-Amin

Abdul Aziz, 

Kojo Bomani, 

Joseph Bowen, 

Mumia Abu-Jamal, 

Kamau Sadiki, 

Kenny Zulu Whitmore 

FORMERLY IMPRISONED

Sundiata Acoli, 

Ashanti Omowale-Alston, 

Ray Bordeaux, 

Veronza Bowers, 

Herman Bell, 

Hank Jones, 

Robert King, 

Jalil Muntaqim, 

Jihad Abdul-Mumit, 

Harold Taylor, 

Francisco Torres, 

Gabriel Torres, 

Kazi Toure, 

Dhoruba bin-Wahad

ANCESTORS (Released)

John Bowman, 

Richard Brown, 

Marshall ‘Eddie’ Conway, 

Herman Ferguson, 

Robert Seth Hayes, 

Sekou Kambui, 

Ruchelle Cinque Magee, 

Sekou Odinga, 

Geronimo jiga Pratt, 

Russell Maroon Shoatz, 

Mutulu Shakur, 

Bilal Sunni Ali, 

Herman Wallace, 

Albert Woodfox

ANCESTORS - while imprisoned

Kuwasi Balagoon

Romaine ‘Chip’ Fitzgerald

Bashir Hameed

Teddy Jah Heath

mondo we langa

Abdullah Majid

Ed Poindexter

Albert Nuh Washington

Warren Wells

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All Power to the People! examines problems of race, poverty, dissent, and the universal conflict of the haves versus the have nots. U.S. government documents, rare news clips, and interviews with both ex-activists and former FBI/CIA officers, provide deep insight into the bloody conflict between political dissent and governmental authority in the U.S. of the 60s and 70s.