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Today in Labor History July 24, 1969: The Gay Liberation Front was founded in New York City less than one month after the Stonewall Riots. Members of the GLF would go on to found other radical queer activist groups like the Gay Activists Alliance, Gay Youth New York, and Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), and later groups such as ACT UP, the Lesbian Avengers, Queer Nation, and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The GLF had a broad political platform, that was anti-racist and anti-capitalist. They supported various Third World struggles and the Black Panthers. They attacked the nuclear family and traditional gender roles. Some of their earliest direct actions were protests against the negative portrayal of queer people in the media, with an early focus on the homophobia of the Village Voice. Later in 1969, they started publishing their own magazine, “Come Out!”

Today in Labor History July 18, 1969: The Black Panthers held their United Front Against Fascism conference, in Oakland, California, along with the Puerto Rican activist group, the Young Lords, and the working-class, largely Appalachian, white activist group, the Young Patriots. One of the main goals was to promote revolutionary class solidarity. For more on the origins of the original Rainbow Coalition of Panthers, Young Patriots and Young Lords, see the wonderful book, “Hillbilly Nationalists,” by Amy Sonnie and James Tracey.

Today In Labor History June 29, 1941: Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998), founder of the U.S. civil rights group the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He was a key figure in the Black Power movement, becoming honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party and, later, as the leader of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. The FBI attempted to destroy him through COINTELLPRO, and succeeded in convincing Huey Newton that he was a CIA agent. This, and the Panthers’ embracing of white activists into their movement, led him to distance himself from the Panthers. In 1968, he married the famous South African singer Miriam Makeba and moved to Africa, changing his name to Kwame Ture and campaigning internationally for revolutionary socialist pan-Africanism.

Stanford University Libraries: Huey P. Newton Collection Digitized by Stanford Libraries with Mellon Grant. “The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Inc. Collection, the world’s largest and most comprehensive Black Panther Party archive, is now available through the Libraries’ online exhibit, Spotlight and catalog, SearchWorks.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/21/stanford-university-libraries-huey-p-newton-collection-digitized-by-stanford-libraries-with-mellon-grant/

Fred Hampton was a powerful force which is why the YT devil had to murder him at the age of only 21

He was murdered December 4 1969 and we would have been so further along had they left him the f alone

Research has shown that doing good leads to a healthier life; so karma is real; so I hope all those involved...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ham

en.wikipedia.orgFred Hampton - Wikipedia

"I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth. This belief lies at the heart of the concept of revolutionary suicide. Thus it is better to oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them. Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the probability, of changing intolerable conditions." ― #HueyPNewton #BlackPanthers #BlackHistory