Hampton and Clark: 50 Years Gone, Never Forgotten(December 2, 2019) - I discussed the 1969 murders of Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark at the hands of the Chicago police and FBI.
Needless to say, I was pleased to see that a movie about Hampton, entitled
Judas and the Black Messiah, was released to much acclaim just a few weeks ago.
Of course, like all historical dramas, there has been some criticism about the film s shortcomings. One of the most insightful of these was an article in
The Guardian by Akin Olla that discusses how this film downplays Hampton s anti-capitalist, Marxist-Leninist beliefs.
Now here’s Sheridan Media’s look back in time, to 100 years ago, by reporter Pat Blair as published in the Sheridan Enterprise newspaper on March 1, 1921.
With the decision of the United States Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of the Federal Farm Loan Act, H. J. Thomas, agriculturist for the Sheridan County Farm Bureau, says he is ready to assist in organization of additional farm loan associations here.
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Bowman of Big Horn are Sheridan visitors.
Bliss Bayne of Story has gone to Cheyenne for a visit.
Buds on trees and shrubbery throughout the city are all but bursting open, prompting predictions from old-timers that spring will come early this year.
In 1965, when Mary Beth Tinker was an eighth-grader at Harding Junior High in Des Moines, she and five other students, including her brother, John, 15, wore black bands on their arms to protest the Vietnam War. The students were suspended from school.
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