New Black Panther Party raises flag, issues at Boston City Hall
Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 03:22AM
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- Honoring Marcus Garvey's Birthday.
The New Black Panther Party raised the African
Liberation Flag and hoisted several contentious issues at City Hall
Plaza yesterday. Jamarhl Crawford, chairman of the Boston Chapter of
the NBPP, talked about reparations for slavery, the effect of drugs on
black communities, and the police response to surging crime in hot-spot
neighborhoods. "We want to see how we can push the envelope,'' said
Crawford, 33. He said the party is aimed at outreach to "the streets of
our communities, the places where the politicians and the preachers
don't go.'' The flag-raising commemorated the 117th birthday of Marcus
Garvey, a civil rights activist known for his ``Back to Africa'' call
to African-Americans in the early 1920s. The NBPP, based in Roxbury,
has been in operation locally since 200o. [more] 
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