Word: panther
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Look at the Ravens' Ray Lewis. Just after Superbowl XXXIV, Lewis was charged in the stabbing deaths of two men after a brawl. He was mentioned in the same breath as former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth, who was involved in killing his pregnant girlfriend. Even after the legal matter was settled, things looked bleak...
...teen watched men and women and children in satin robes burn a cross on her lawn; and who as a college student joined an armed protest to demand a black-studies program at Cornell University. She felt she had two choices after graduation: become a Black Panther or return to Nepal (where she had spent part of her junior year) to study at a Tibetan monastery...
...than two hours in the penalty phase before coming back with a death sentence. I didn't know much about the case when I moved to Philadelphia in 1985 to work for the Inquirer. But I later heard it said that Abu-Jamal, a former radio reporter and Black Panther Party member, had been railroaded and that evidence pointing to another killer had been buried. Philadelphia being what it was and my politics being what they were, none of that seemed preposterous to me. But I began to educate myself, and the things Abu-Jamal supporters didn't know were...
...admit it. I'm obsessed with the lives of 10 publicity-starved strangers. But I just can't pull myself away. When Will, the charismatic troublemaker and former member of the New Black Panther Party, got the boot last Thursday, I promised myself that this would be the end. But 15 minutes later, I logged on one last time to see how the gang was faring. Next thing I knew, it was 5 a.m., and I was still glued to the screen. Clearly, I have a problem...
...invisible in Hollywood. A black hero was unthinkable, let alone one so contemptuous of the pretensions of white society. It promoted this radical morality in which a black man could only do the right thing by stepping outside a corrupt and racist justice system - it was the quintessential Black Panther movie. Of course a lot's changed since then. But instead of challenging prevailing attitudes, this "Shaft" seemed was trying to appease the prevailing political correctness by having good and bad whites, blacks and Latinos. It's a crossover "Shaft...