Word: panther
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DIED. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, 62, former Black Panther firebrand and prophet of black empowerment; of undisclosed causes; in Pomona, Calif. While serving a jail term for assault, Cleaver took up the idea of black power and penned Soul on Ice, his radical 1968 polemic on black rage. He joined the Black Panther Party on his release. Two years later, after a gunfight with police in Oakland, he fled to Algeria, Cuba and Paris, living in exile for eight years. Abroad, he embraced fervent anticommunism and evangelical Christianity. Addiction to crack and petty crimes followed his return...
...information minister in the early years of the Black Panther Party, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER was a one-of-a-kind charismatic revolutionary who understood the politics of the human-liberation struggle. Party members called him "Papa" or "the Rage!" Fresh out of prison, he became a literary giant with his book Soul on Ice. Eldridge put his heart, mind and soul into the 1960s movement, but in the early '80s, I read that he said the party should have never existed. He tried to contact me, but I refused to speak with him. One day his ex-wife Kathleen called...
Israeli essayist and author Amos Oz's most recent book is Panther in the Basement
Instead, Cochran spoke mostly about another client, Black Panther Geronimo Pratt, who after a twenty-year legal battle was recently acquitted of a murder charge...
...admit: the utility of what I know is debatable: Fred "Mr." Rogers is an ordained Presbyterian minister. Henry Mancini (late composer of such classics as "The Pink Panther" and "Moon River") wrote the theme to the TV show "What's Happening?" The programs "Perfect Strangers," "Family Matters," "Full House" and "Step by Step" all co-exist in the same fictional universe because either Steve Urkel or a member of the Winslow family has appeared on each of them...