‘There was no place for me in American society’: an ex-Black Panther cub speaks out

Black Panther cubs at the party's Black Community Survival conference in Oakland, California, in March 1972. Illustration: Stephen Shames/Polaris/Guardian Design

Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week, Guardian Documentaries has released a short film about the life and legacy of the Black Panthers with a focus on the group’s children. It was released alongside a Long Read by Ed Pilkington in the US on the wider group. I spoke to one of those cubs in the film, Ericka Abram, about her childhood within the activist community in the 1970s, and how her life was shaped by the experience. But first, the weekly roundup.

‘I lived in a protected Panther bubble’