Sekou Odinga

Amid music festivals and moon landings, the tumultuous year of 1969 included an infamous case in the annals of criminal justice and Black liberation: the New York City Black Panther 21. Though some among the group had hardly even met one another, the 21 were rounded up by the FBI and New York Police Department, in an attempt to disrupt and destroy the organization that was attracting young people around the world. Involving charges of conspiracy to...