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Article: Black Panther's legacy revealed at length

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February 24, 2006
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Booker, Bobbi
Philadelphia Tribune, The
02-24-2006
Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex
man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. In
"TARGET ZERO: A Life in Writing by Eldridge Cleaver" (Palgrave Macmillan,
$27.95) Cleaver's former wife, Kathleen, offers a collection of writings
that charts Cleaver's life through his writings since his 1968 bestselling
book, "Soul on Ice: his quiet childhood, his youth spent in prison, his
startling emergence as a Black-Panther leader who became a "fugitive from
justice" by the end of 1968, his seven-year exile, and his religious and
political conversion following his return to the U.S.

Kathleen also ...

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