Tag: Black Nationalist Groups: Page 2

Patrol

Black Panthers' Gun Supplier Was FBI Informant

A prominent 1960s Black Panther Party activist who supplied the group with its first firearms that were used in gun battles with Oakland police was working as an FBI informant.

August 22, 2012

Special Units

Feds Capture 70s-Era Black Nationalist Hijacker

George Wright, 68, was arrested as he walked to a cafe near his home in Portugal on Tuesday. Wright is a convicted killer who escaped from prison in 1970, and resurfaced two years later when he and four other members of the Black Liberation Army commandeered a Delta flight from Detroit to Miami.

September 27, 2011