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Bobby Seale

The Black Panthers co-founder, whose new book marks the 50th anniversary of the party’s establishment, talks about guns, Trump and Obama

Your new book with photographer Stephen Shames, Power to the People, is full of pictures from the early days of the Black Panther Party. How does it feel to look back at that time? It feels like yesterday. Because I never stopped being active in one way, shape, fashion or form.

The introduction notes that you

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