{"title":"Yohuru Williams","description":"Yohuru Williams is Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author and or editor of several books on the Black Panther party, including Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement (Routledge, 2015); Black Politics\/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven (Blackwell, 2006), In Search of the Black Panther Party, New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Duke, 2006), and Liberated Territory: Toward a Local History of the Black Panther Party (Duke, 2008). He has appeared on ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Aljazeera America, BET, CSPAN, EBRU Today, Fox Business News, Fresh Outlook, Huff Post Live, and NPR, and is a regular contributor to The Progressive.","products":[{"product_id":"the-black-panthers-portraits-from-an-unfinished-revolution-paperback","title":"The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, and the historic presidency of Barack Obama.\" -- Kevin Powell, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy's Journey into Manhood\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A brilliantly conceived volume. Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams demonstrate why the Panthers' story-its lessons and failures-even fifty years after its founding remains key to understanding national and international struggles for freedom and justice today.\" -- Cheryl Finley, professor and director of visual studies, Cornell University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Even fifty years after it was founded, the Black Panther Party remains one of the most misunderstood political organizations of the twentieth century. But beyond the labels of \"extremist\" and \"violent\" that have marked the party, and beyond charismatic leaders like Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver, were the ordinary men and women who made up the Panther rank and file. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Black Panthers\u003c\/i\u003e, photojournalist Bryan Shih and historian Yohuru Williams offer a reappraisal of the party's history and legacy. Through stunning portraits and interviews with surviving Panthers, as well as illuminating essays by leading scholars, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Panthers\u003c\/i\u003e reveals party members' grit and battle scars-and the undying love for the people that kept them going.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367404667103,"sku":"9781568585550","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DNuZQ2JTqu9781568585550.webp?v=1789106211"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/yohuru-williams.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}