FORMER AREA NEW PANTHER LEADER TO DISCUSS ATTACK ON ELDER PANTHER!
On Thursday, September 24th, Baba Zayid Muhammad, former area leader for the New Black Panther Party, will discuss the recent attack on Black Panther legend Dhoruba Bin Wahad.
The discussion will take place at the general assembly meeting of the People's Organization for Progress at 7pm at Abyssinian Baptist Church, 224 West Market Street, Newark.
"I am appalled beyond words about what happened to Dhoruba," said an angry Muhammad.
Bin Wahad was attacked on August 8th in Atlanta.
Dhoruba Bin Wahad was the field secretary for the NY chapter of the Black Panther Party. That commitment made him a serious government COINTELPRO target He endured 19 years in prison on account of that targetting. NY state has more political prisoners with ties to the Black Panther Party than any other state in the country. Upon his release, he founded the Campaign To Free Black and New Afrikan Political Prisoners. He also penned Still Black, Still Strong with his former wife Tanaquil Jones. He later lived in West Africa for several years. Most recently, he is the co-chair of the Atlanta based National Coalition to Combat Police Terrorism with former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
Last year, he endured an attack by a Clayton County police officer in front of his Georgia home. The attack was luckily captured on videotape.
Now 71, Bin Wahad suffered a broken jaw in three places and a concussion from the attack at the NBPP event in Atlanta.
Muhammad is a well-known cub of the NY chapter of the Black Panther Party. He is a proud cub of Bin Wahad and of the late Safiya Bukhari Alston in particular. He was there when Bin Wahad was released from prison on March 22, 1990, after having faced a 19 year COINTELPRO frame up. He was a founding member of Bin Wahad's Campaign To Free Black and New Afrikan Political Prisoners. He is one of the area's most well-known voices on the plight of Black political prisoners. He was one of the few members of the New Black Panther Party to have ties to the original Black Panther Party. He joined after their legendary armed stand against the KuKluxKlan led by the late Khallid Abdul Muhammad in June 1998 after the lynching of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas.
Khallid Muhammad passed away as their National Chairman on February 17, 2001 after growing the organization in dozens of cities.
Later that year, Muhammad was asked by Malik Zulu Shabazz to stay on and serve as the Party's national minister of culture along with his serving as Regional Chief of Staff for New York and New Jersey. Along with Divine Allah, Muhammad is credited for stabilizing the Party in that region after the challenges that came with Khallid Abdul Muhammad's death.
In 2013, when Shabazz orchestrated an ugly divide in the Party, declared "martial law" and announced that he was not going to honor his agreement to step down as national chair and allow for all national posts to be put up for re-election, Muhammad left with the majority of the Party's rank and file. Months later, he was re-elected to his post as Minister of Culture under the leadership of Krystal Muhammad who was elected as the new Chair in a national election held at a unity conference in Atlanta, Georgia. He retired in the Fall of 2014.
A respected poet and performing artist, he is currently the press officer for the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee of which he was a founding member and the media advocate for the Newark AntiViolence Coalition…
From the Desk of Baba Zayid Muhammad
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“A turtle cannot go forward until he first sticks his neck out…”
Malcolm X
September 21, 2015
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