PantherA time of tension. Of rioting in the streets. A time of change. In Oakland, California, 1968, The Black Panthers led by Huey Newton (Marcus Chong, The Matrix) and Bobby Seale (Courtney B. Vance, The Preacher's Wife) have armed themselves and are ready to fight for freedom. To the people, they're heroes, but to the FBI they're Public Enemy Number One. Now the Feds will do everything they san on the right or wrong side of the law to bring them down.

Shipp's magnificent career

Here are compelling and surreal dispatches from America's demi-monde

even at his most claustrophobic

This new recording from "The President's Own" United States Marine Band begins with the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Loaded with nearly four hours of extras

is an altogether different beast

Edmond Rostand's masterpiece is presented as it was interpreted by comedians of the French Comedy in 1955 in a production staged by Pierre Hiegel

absolutely nothing which could deter me from continuing to fight with all my energies for the freedom of my people

and the architecture of individual movements thoughtfully worked out

she discovered just how closely the two composers had worked together

shot by Lucien Ballard (The Wild Bunch)

Prior to the age of mechanical reproduction