Reviews

Power to the People: The Black Panthers Speak by Fred Hampton Jr.

librarylapin's review

3.0

This book had numerous speeches, including one by Fred Hampton. I was hoping there would be more of his work in this volume but I thought it was thought-provoking and a starting point to more work by the black panthers. The highlight was a speech by one woman talks about what it means to be a woman in the black panther movement. Unfortunately the audio quality is not the best and many speakers are not introduced.

tylrck's review

Just a short collection of speeches, some of them i’ve heard before. Overall pretty interesting though.

temi42's review

informative inspiring tense fast-paced

4.5

elizafiedler's review

4.0

Do not recommend this particular recording on Hoopla, it needs a lot of cleaning up.

szucker6's review

4.0

The content of these speeches: 5 stars

As other reviewers have commented, the lack of audio clean-up, context, and logical order of the speeches make it a harder listen. But it is so worth it. This is an excellent introduction to Fred Hampton, and I imagine it is a good listen for me before I dive into The Assassination of Fred Hampton.

bridgetbo's review

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Racism

moonyreadsbystarlight's review

It was really great to hear these speeches and I liked that they included other bits alongside them to talk about his death. The down side here is the audio quality. Some were very hard to hear and I had to listen through twice. While transcriptions of some are available, I could not find all of them. I am still very glad that someone did compile what they could, as there are not many books (that I have found) to go to that focus on Fred Hampton specifically. 

holmesstorybooks's review

inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Gun violence