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...Elmer ("Geronimo") Pratt's release from prison evoked memories of the Black Panther Party, which the once militant Seale helped create in 1966. In 1969 Seale's courtroom histrionics as one of the Chicago Eight (they were tried for inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention) caused the judge to order him shackled to a chair and gagged. In 1973 Seale tried working within the system, running unsuccessfully for mayor of Oakland, Calif. He has since published a memoir and a cookbook, Barbeque'n with Bobby. These days his political focus is on "civil-human rights." He is a volunteer...
Artists like Butterfly of Digable Planets, Vinny of Naughty by Nature, Mic Geronimo and the rapper Bahamadia are expected to attend the conference and lead a variety of panel discussions...
Next Saturday, the club will host a hip-hop conference boasting such groups as Digable Planets, Supernatural, Naughty by Nature, Zulu Nation, Souls of Mischief and Mic Geronimo and the rapper Bahamadia, Fraser said...
...martinis for a month to get in shape for his parachute jump, endured countless gibes from his loving but irreverent kids ("Next you'll tell us you have an 18-year-old girlfriend"), shouted "Arch!" (yes, as in arch your back) as he leaped into the blue instead of "Geronimo!" like John Wayne, bumped his head against the fuselage, but then floated exuberantly into the record books as the only parachuting former President...
...asked for Cochran's legal assistance, and the lawyer agonized over taking the case. Cochran says what finally made up his mind was his sense of justice--a sense honed perhaps more on one particular loss than on all his dramatic victories. In 1972 Cochran's client, Elmer (``Geronimo'') Pratt, a Black Panther accused of murdering a white schoolteacher, was sent to prison for life; 23 years later, Cochran still maintains that Pratt was framed by the FBI, and is still fighting for his release. ``It taught me that you can work within the system and believe...