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PHOTOS: Students Unveil Mural Commemorating Seattle Black Panther Party

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Story and Photos by Susan Fried

Hundreds of people filled the Franklin High School commons on Nov. 9 to await the official unveiling of the Franklin High School Art of Resistance and Resilience Club’s 40-foot mural commemorating the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther’s 50th Anniversary. Members of the Art of Resistance & Resilience, a social and environmental justice-oriented art club at Franklin, have been working on the mural since January and were able to display a portion of it at the SCBP 50th Anniversary Celebration in April.

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The Black Panthers’ Revolution Never Ends

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As the Seattle Black Panther Party marks its 50th anniversary, its revolutionary force lives on.

by Marcus Harrison Green

Whether the weapons used are ideas or artillery, revolutions will always be soul-cripplingly brutal. Complexity and commotion are their base ingredients—neither of which is surprising considering revolutions are a result of a faction with an idea of “what society ought to be” furiously raging against the established “what society is.” Continue reading The Black Panthers’ Revolution Never Ends →