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Donald Neilson (born Donald Nappey; 1 August 1936 – 18 December 2011), also known as "The Black Panther," "The Phantom," and "Handy Andy," was an English armed robber, kidnapper and murderer. [2] Neilson carried out a series of sub-post office robberies between 1971 and 1974, killing three people. [ 3 ]
Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he grew up.He has a younger brother named William. They attended local public schools. In 1968, a high school teacher, a Kenyan man instructing a class on African cultures, encouraged the students to take African or Arabic names for classroom use; he gave Cook the name "Mumia". [10]
JoNina Abron-Ervin, reporter and editor of The Black Panther. [1] Mumia Abu-Jamal, Lieutenant Minister of Information, Philadelphia chapter. In prison for the murder of a police officer. [2] Sundiata Acoli, Finance Minister of the Harlem chapter who served 49 years in prison for murdering a New Jersey state trooper, and was released in 2022. [3 ...
Veronza Leon Curtis Bowers Jr. (born February 4, 1946 [1]) is a former member of the Black Panther Party.He was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted by a jury on the charge of first degree murder of U.S. park ranger Kenneth Patrick at Point Reyes National Seashore in 1973.
In early 1968, he helped build the Bronx chapter of the Black Panther Party. On January 17, 1969, two Panthers, Bunchy Carter and John Huggins, were killed by members of US Organization on the UCLA campus, and a fellow New York Panther who was in police custody was brutally beaten. Sekou was informed that police were searching for him in ...
In 1970, while in prison, Seale was charged and tried as part of the New Haven Black Panther trials over the torture and murder of Alex Rackley, whom the Black Panther Party had suspected of being a police informer. Panther George Sams, Jr., testified that Seale had ordered him to kill Rackley.
Jalil Abdul Muntaqim (born Anthony Jalil Bottom; October 18, 1951) is a convicted felon, political activist and former member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Black Liberation Army (BLA) who served 49 years in prison for two counts of first-degree murder.
King has consistently maintained his innocence in the prison murder. He was among the co-founders of the Angola chapter of the Black Panther Party. With Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, also former Black Panthers, he is known as one of the Angola 3, men who were held for decades in solitary confinement at Angola. With the death of Woodfox in ...