| BlackCommentator.comem Editorial Board
Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther
Party,
the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New
Africa, a
former political prisoner and the only American to have
successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case
to the
United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil
and
Political Rights. In connection with his political
organizing
activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc.,
Pinkney was
interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS
NewsHour,
formerly known as The MacNeil/LehrerNewsHour. For more
about Larry
Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century
Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel
[Introduction by
Howard Zinn]. (Click here
to read excerpts from the book). Click here
to contact Mr. Pinkney. |
