![]() ![]() "I guess you might say it was kind of a therapy for us when we weren't under pressure implementing some program or dealing with the police and the courts and all that stuff, and we had a chance to relax in our houses." The Black Panthers, with Elbert 'Big Man' Howard at right, engaged in a practice drill. "In our offices we always had a few records that we played all the time, and wore out some of them," the former Black Panther says. Picture the Black Panthers' relationship to music, and it's tempting to imagine politicized songs of the revolution - "Say it Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)" by James Brown, "When the Revolution Comes" by the Last Poets - played at full volume while party members prepare supplies and plan for the day's protests.īut ask Elbert "Big Man" Howard, and the founding member of the original Black Panther Party remembers it a different way.
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