Have you ever heard of the Black Panthers as a group in Maryland?
My memory goes back to Huey Newton, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael. None from Maryland.
Last week I received an invitation to meet PAUL COATES, a BLACK PANTHER, born in Philadelphia, but made his name in Baltimore Maryland.
In fact, he became the captain of black panther activities: free food, free clothing, free housing; then he went into publishing in the preservation of black history.
He is so drenched in blackness that he gave some of his children African names following the admonition of Malcolm X. Names like TA-NEHISI, Egyptian black, after a Nubian/ Sudanese, for resistance.
It was Black Panther Huey Newton, who fled to Cuba in 1974, because he protested his impending arrest by the government. He was granted asylum and returned three years later, when charges were dropped.
Paul Coates was in the middle of it all, and recently paid Cuba a visit.
Last week he was talking about a new book:
THE BROTHER YOU CHOOSE:
