55 years ago today Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were murdered by the Chicago Police and the FBI. Hampton was just 21 years old at the time of his death. (lemmygrad.ml)

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[-] anothertranscomrade@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Reading about his life was how my radicalization started, all because of a RATM lyric lmao

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

True people's hero. I can't imagine being so based at 21.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Long live Clark and Hampton, death to the bourgeois!

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