On the 2nd day of Black History Month, we give thanks to Eldridge Cleaver, a political activist, writer, and an early prominent leader of the Black Panthers party who also contributed to the rock-hard ...

One figure that liberals haven’t commemorated this Black History Month is Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panther Party ringleader of the 1960s. The reason is no great mystery: Had Cleaver remained a ...

Early '80's and a call to ask if I would want to meet with Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panther and author of the seminal "Soul on Ice," a memoir of a a radical black militant in prison. As a good ...

Donald Trump's bid for another term as the president of the United States could potentially hit a snag as Colorado and several other states mull if a ban on insurrectionists taking office also applies ...

SOUL ON ICE by Eldridge Cleaver. 210 pages. A Ramparts Book. McGraw-Hill. $5.95. Prisons are traditional finishing schools of writers and revolutionaries. Eldridge Cleaver is a product of both the ...

This Black History Month series features significant moments in black history that have left a mark. Eldridge Cleaver was a writer, political activist, and one of the early leaders of the Black ...

Back on Feb. 16, Independent Lens — PBS’s long-running, weekly program of original, independently-produced documentaries — aired a two-hour film titled “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.

When I was barely 40 I wrote a memoir of sorts, Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette. I was rather young for that, but one man’s chutzpah is another man’s megalomania. The book cut awfully close to the ...