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Dan Berger is Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington Bothell, where he curates the Washington Prison History Project. His most recent book is Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey.
Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.
Jalil Muntaqim, a Black Panther imprisoned since 1971, is one of thousands of elderly prisoners the United States has refused to free during the pandemic.
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