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Article: The revolution comes to life (with a few changes), in `Panther'
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- Call and Post (Cincinnati)
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- May 11, 1995
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Call and Post (Cincinnati)
05-11-1995
The revolution comes to life (with a few changes), in `Panther'.
The father and son team, Melvin and Mario Van Peebles, has cautiously transformed the controversial and often misrepresented '60s revolutionary group, The Black Panther Party, into celluloid cause celebre'. Most remembered as angry gun-totting brothers in leather jackets, the real story of the legendary Black Panthers was begging to be told.
It is not easy to accept the fact that someone is attempting to turn your heroes into human beings for the whole world to see, and more importantly, to judge. To say the least, I was just as concerned (if not more) as anyone else as to how the ...