Eldridge Cleaver has been an underrated figure in the Black Power Movement of the 60s and 70s. He was the Minister of Information and Head of the International Section of the Black Panthers and he ...

Cleaver joined the party two months after it was founded in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. In 1968, he published a best-selling collection of essays titled Soul On Ice in ...

Shortly after his electoral defeat, Cleaver fled the U.S. rather than face trial for the Oakland incident, not returning until 1975, after which he served less than a year in jail along with lots ...

Eldridge Cleaver missed his chance at martyrdom. If he had died in the 1968 shootout with Oakland police, he would probably have become a revered icon. We’d forever see him in his glory, a be… ...