Sekou Odinga was a leading member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army during the late 1960s. Imprisoned for over 33 years for fighting for the freedom of Black people and the building of the Republic of New Afrika, Odinga is one of almost two dozen members of the Black Panther Party who have spent thirty years or more unjustly held in the U.S. prison system as political prisoners.
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