Pictured in front of the Omaha, Neb. Central Police Station June 27, 1969, just after their release from questioning, are Black Panthers, left to right: Robert Cecil, Robert Griffo, Frank Peate, Gary House, and William Peak. (AP Photo)

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner famously wrote in the 1951 novel Requiem for a Nun, about the vicious cycle of trauma that lies deep in the heart of America. It is a truth that plays out more frequently than we may know. 

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Following the April 11 police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright at a traffic stop, George Floyd’s girlfriend Courteney Ross revealed to the pressthat she had taught Wright while he was a student at Edison High School. The horrific convergence echoes that of Iberia Hampton, mother of slain Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, who babysat for Emmett Till before the 14-year-old boy was brutally murdered in 1955.

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The stories of Emmett Till and Fred Hampton are just two of the stories featured in Eyes on the Prize, a landmark 1987 documentary TV series chronicling about Civil Rights Movement, which is now streaming free for a limited time.

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27 Mar 1969, Dallas, Texas, USA — Original caption: Heavyweight champion Cassius Clay playfully spars with an unidentified Negro boy after Clay learned that he has won a delay in his 4/11 draft call. Clay’s Louisville draft board announced that his records are being transferred to Houston, Clay’s new home, and then Houston will set a new date for his draft call. Clay is in Dallas visiting local Black Muslim leaders. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Eve Arnold. Malcolm X at a Black Muslim rally, USA. District of Columbia. Town of Washington D.C. 1961.
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