Diane Fujino tackles new, explosive claims that Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki was an FBI informant.

Democracy Now!: Diane Fujino, author of Samurai among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life, appears on the show with Seth Rosenfeld, whose new book Subversives claims that Aoki informed on his colleagues.

San Francisco Chronicle: An op-ed piece, published today, in which Fujino asks, where’s the evidence?

Fred Ho weighs in: Asian American activist and scholar Fred Ho, a friend of Aoki’s, refutes Rosenfeld’s claims.

Further links:
Fujino’s Samurai among Panthers.
Fred Ho’s Wicked Theory, Naked Practice.


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