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Independent Lens: Black Panthers - Vanguards of the Revolution

Premieres on SO PBS World Monday February 24 at 4:30 p.m.

Black Panther Activists holding flags

In the turbulent 1960s, change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored — cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change.