Larry Pinkney was interviewed by host Bill Mandel on Thinking Out Loud
with Bill Mandel, KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley, CA (USA), on July 10, 2005
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Thinking Out Loud with Bill Mandel – July 10, 2005 at 6:30pm
Thinking Out Loud – July 10, 2005
Bill Mandel will interview a former Black Panther prisoner, Larry Pinkney, who believes his life was saved by the actions of KPFA listeners 20 years ago. They will talk about how to improve the status of Blacks today and their present relationship with whites and with Latinos.
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Larry Pinkney is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania/South Africa). He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton (Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.)
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