Larry Pinkney

Larry Pinkney:

Larry Pinkney is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. He has been interviewed on the nationally televised MACNEIL/LEHRER NEWS HOUR, regarding voter registration and disenfranchisement issues particularly as they pertain to economically poor and nonwhite voters in the United States.

Larry Pinkney has been written about in various books including two published by the United Nations, and the book entitled, 'Saying No To Power,' by William Mandel [introduction by Howard Zinn]. As a college student he was the chairman of the Black Student's Union at City College of San Francisco, and was politically active at the campus of San Francisco State during the student strike of 1968-69.

Pinkney is also a former university instructor and is a lecturer and writer, having had pieces published in assorted news media organs including the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, The Boston Globe, The Minnesota Daily, The Guardian (of New York), Canadian Dimension Magazine, Vancouver Indymedia (Canada), the ONLINE JOURNAL, and It's About Time--news organ of the Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni.

Despite having been a target of the US Government's infamous 'COINTELPRO' program, which targeted American Black and White political activists for discreditation, he has continued to be an outspoken political activist. He describes himself as a believer in the "absolute necessity of political struggle and the power of the people."