“I got into publishing because I was in the Black Panther Party and we had people in jail,” Paul Coates—legendary activist, publisher, and founder of Black Classic Press—tells TRNN.
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“I got into publishing because I was in the Black Panther Party and we had people in jail,” Paul Coates—legendary activist, publisher, and founder of Black Classic Press—tells TRNN.

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