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| 2024 | Apple TV+ releases The Big Cigar, a series following Huey Newton's escape to Cuba. |
| 2024 |
Mardi Gras Indians
Arts New Orleans' Young Artist Movement provided funding for local young Black artists to create Mardi Gras Indian suits, aiming to preserve the cultural practice for younger generations.
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| October 7 2023 | Black Alliance for Peace coordinated with multiple organizations to protest the Israeli bombing of Gaza following Hamas's attack on Israel, calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Gaza and reaffirming support for Palestinian rights. |
| 2021 | David F. Walker publishes The Black Panther Party, a graphic novel featuring biographies of fifteen Black Panther leaders. |
| 2021 | Judas and the Black Messiah is released, starring Daniel Kaluuya and telling the story of Fred Hampton and the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party. |
| 2020 | Netflix releases The Trial of the Chicago 7, featuring Bobby Seale (portrayed by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and the Chicago Seven trial. |
| 2020 |
Mardi Gras Indians
Tiara Horton, Queen of the 9th Ward Black Hatchet tribe, created a Black Lives Matter suit featuring beaded images of Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, and the Obamas before George Floyd's murder, using the Mardi Gras Indian tradition as a form of protest.
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| 2019 | The film Seberg is released, starring Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg, highlighting her support of the Black Panther Party and persecution under COINTELPRO. |
| 2018 | Samir Shabazz, BRLP leader and New Black Panther Party leader, made inflammatory statements about white people during a public address. |
| April 2018 | A North Carolina court ordered payment of $15,000 to Shakur's representative, her sister Beverly Goins, as part of a land deal. |
| July 2017 | Women's March official Twitter feed celebrated Shakur's birthday, which generated media criticism. |
| April 2017 | Colin Kaepernick's foundation donated $25,000 to the Chicago Black activist group Assata's Daughters. |
| April 2017 | Ajamu Baraka founded the Black Alliance for Peace, establishing an anti-war movement organization rooted in the Black community in the United States. The founding members collectively agreed on ten core principles including self-defense, anti-imperialism, intersectionality, and Black unity. |
| 2015 | Kean University dropped hip-hop artist Common as a commencement speaker due to police complaints over his song 'A Song For Assata'. |
| 2015 | Mischa Culton gave an interview to Vice magazine discussing black autonomy and revolutionary struggle. |
| 2014 | BAP joined efforts to support the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) initiative to establish the Americas as a 'Zone of Peace', aiming to remove forces supporting war, state violence, colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism. |
| 2012 | The Black Riders Liberation Party launched their own newspaper, named after the organization. |
| May 3 2012 | Two days after the May Day strike, party leader Mischa Culton's home was reportedly raided by authorities during a 'compliance check' by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. |
| May 1 2012 | Black Riders Liberation Party participated in a small 'General Strike' effort in Los Angeles on May Day. |
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