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The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was an underground Marxist–Leninist, black-nationalist militant organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981. Composed of former Black Panthers (BPP) [2] and Republic of New Afrika (RNA) members who served above ground before going underground, the organization's program was one of war against the United States government, and its stated ...
NAACP, Black Panther Party, Black Liberation Army, Citizen Action of New York Rochester Chapter Jalil Abdul Muntaqim (born Anthony Jalil Bottom ; October 18, 1951) is a convicted felon, political activist and former member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Black Liberation Army (BLA) who served 49 years in prison for two counts of first ...
Members of the Black Liberation Army took over the aircraft in flight using weapons smuggled on board, including a handgun hidden inside a Bible with its pages cut out to form a cavity. None of the hostages were killed during the hijacking. Five hijackers who had boarded with three children took over the aircraft.
Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams; August 8, 1950 – July 7, 2023) was an African American activist, and a member of the Black Liberation Army who was sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which a guard and two police officers were murdered.
On November 2, 1979, Shakur escaped the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey when three members of the Black Liberation Army visiting her drew concealed .45-caliber pistols and a stick of dynamite, seized two correction officers as hostages, commandeered a van and (with the assistance of members of the May 19 Communist ...
Black Liberation Army member Thomas 'Blood' McCreary recruited the twenty-year-old Myers into the BLA in the early 1970s after meeting him in East Village. [3] McCreary claimed that he and Myers were part of a group of BLA members who plotted to carry out an attack against the Rhodesian consulate in New York in support of the Zimbabwe African National Union, but the plan was abandoned after ...
Sekou Odinga (born Nathanial Burns, June 17, 1944 – January 12, 2024) was an American New Afrikan activist who was imprisoned for actions with the Black Liberation Army in the 1960s and 1970s. [1] In 1965, Sekou joined the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), founded by Malcolm X.
Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad (born Richard Earl Moore; [1] 1944) is an American writer and activist, Black Panther Party leader and co-founder of the Black Liberation Army. Dhoruba , in Swahili , means "the storm".