How the sun of Palestine reached a Black Panther in jail

Professor and exhibition curator Greg Thomas says there is a radical kinship between Palestinians and Black Americans.  

 Rebecca Pierce

Rebecca Pierce-15 December 2015

For George Jackson, like many Black revolutionaries, prison was a place of both political captivity and radical education.

During the 11 years Jackson spent in prison following a one-year-to-life sentence for his alleged role in a gas station robbery, he amassed a library of more than 99 books with which he used to educate himself and which he shared among his fellow prisoners.

How the Sun of Palestine Reached a Black Panther in Jail by Thavam Ratna