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The New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case was a political controversy in the United States concerning an incident that occurred during the 2008 election.Two weeks before George W. Bush left office, the New Black Panther Party and two of its members, Minister King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, were sued by the Department of Justice on claims of voter intimidation for their conduct ...
The New Black Panther Party (NBPP) is an American black nationalist organization founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1989. [3] Despite its name, the NBPP is not an official successor to the Black Panther Party. [4] Members of the original Black Panther Party have insisted that the new party has no legitimacy and "there is no new Black Panther Party". [4]
J. Christian Adams has said that Coates, who he worked with on a voter intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party, was transferred after a confrontation with acting head of the Civil Rights Division, Steve Rosenbaum. [2] On September 24, 2010, Coates defied the DOJ and testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. [3] [4]
On June 28, 2010, The Washington Times published a guest commentary by Adams in which Adams accused the Justice Department of racial bias by dropping the New Black Panthers case. [19] Subsequently, Adams accused Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez of lying under oath in investigative hearings before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. [5]
Warren Kimbro. Warren Aloysious Kimbro (April 29, 1934 – February 3, 2009) was a Black Panther Party member in New Haven, Connecticut who was found guilty of the May 21, 1969, murder of New York City Panther Alex Rackley, in the first of the New Haven Black Panther trials in 1970.
Veronza Leon Curtis Bowers Jr. (born February 4, 1946 [1]) is a former member of the Black Panther Party. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the charge of first degree murder of U.S. park ranger Kenneth Patrick at Point Reyes National Seashore in 1973. He was incarcerated at a federal correctional institution in North Carolina. [1]
Director Stanley Nelson said of the Black Panther Party. The Black Panthers were founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 and upon their founding had a relatively simple goal — stop police brutality.
Before becoming the National Chairman of the New Black Panther Nation, X gave time to M.F.O.I. (Mental Freedom Obtains Independence) and The New Black Panther Party under the leadership of Khalid Abdul Muhammad who was appointed as the leader of the organization. [3]