Stanford CIS

50 years later, Black Lives Matter takes up Panthers’ fight

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"“It’s a vehicle for us to explain issues that have been ignored by mainstream media,” said Malkia Cyril. A Black Lives Matter activist in Oakland, she’s the daughter of the late Janet Cyril, who ran the Black Panthers’ free breakfast program. “When black people were able to live-stream the violence of police officers on Facebook Live,” she said, “that changed the dynamic of power.”"

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