Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight is not over. It's not won and it's not lost," Cleaver said. "We have to remember that...
...light of such events as the L.A. riots, the Oklahoma City bombing and the resurgence of skinhead groups, Cleaver said, "King's assassination marks this country's colossal failure to heed his message...
...Cleaver added that people tend to forget the importance of Martin Luther King...
...Passion according to Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. held a sort of Last Supper before his murder in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. Invited to dine at King's table were his "disciples," including Black Power activist Stokely Charmichael and several leaders of the Black Panther Party, including Cleaver herself. In a kitschy, if tongue-in-check scene, the prophet's mantle was passed from King to the apostolic Panthers, but instead of bread and wine, there were "hot peppers," the true food of revolutionaries...
Like many other aging '60s firebrands, Cleaver, the keynote speaker at Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. memorial service, has moderated her tone and perhaps her message. But the former communications secretary of the Black Panther Party, who is now an assistant professor of law at Emory University, did seek to justify her past Black Panther activism by appropriating the respect accorded to King and transforming it into a legitimization of her message of militant resistance, a message that King explicitly rejected...