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Larry Pinkney is an editorial board member & columnist with THE BLACK COMMENTATOR, www.BlackCommentator.com; a former university instructor of political science and international relations; and a veteran of the Black Panther Party, and former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa. Further information on Larry Pinkney can be found in the book, SAYING NO TO POWER, by William Mandel [introduction by Howard Zinn]; and in the official archives at Stanford University of Dr. Huey P. Newton [who was cofounder of the Black Panther Party]. Pinkney is 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.