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"Holiness"

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Title

"Holiness"

Subject

Black Panther Party

Description

This poem, written by imprisoned Black Panther Party member, Afeni Shakur, explores the hypocrisy of U.S. society and conjure a revolutionary Jesus who is in solidarity with the Black Panther Party.

Creator

Afeni Shakur

Source

Roz Payne

Publisher

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date

ca. 1970

Format

newsprint

Type

poem

Original Format

paper

Collection

Tags

Citation

Afeni Shakur, “"Holiness",” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed April 11, 2025, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/487.

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