Marvin X had been turned out to revolutionary black nationalism by his fellow students Huey Newton, Bobby Seale and Richard Thorne, along with Kenny and Carol Freeman, Ann Williams, Maurice Dawson and Ernie Allen. All the above had been influenced by the African American Association, headed by Donald Warden, aka Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al Mansour. His associates included Donald Hopkins, Henry Ramsey, Ed Howard, Paul Cobb, et al.
It was Donald Warden's Afro American Association that laid the groundwork of African consciousness that afforded the Black Panther Party to come on the scene. All of us students at Merritt College were influenced by the Afro American Association. They gave us consciousness of African liberation movements in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, and elsewhere.
We read the writings of Jomo Kenyetta, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, et al.
We read the writings of Fidel Castro such as his court speech History Will Absolve Me, the writings of Mao Se Tung.
Daughter Muhammida El Muhajir, Hip Hop filmmaker and her father, Dr. M, will appear on stage at the Black Power to Hip Ho[ Conference at Howard University on Nov. 2-4. She is a graduate of Howard with a degree in B.S. in Microbiology
Contrary to the Hollywood fantasy movies, the Black Panthers were not simple minded thugs, but rather the neo-intellectuals who would usher in the new day of black consciousness.
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