On this day, 22 December 1946, bisexual Black liberation activist Kuwasi Balagoon was born in the United States. He became active in the Black Panther Party in the 1960s, and was later arrested and put on trial as part of the notorious Panther 21 case, who were all later acquitted. He later joined the urban guerrilla group the Black Liberation Army, and was imprisoned and escaped various times.
He was eventually convicted and jailed for life for participation in the Brinks robbery. Balagoon kept up his radical activity in prison, authoring a number of texts, until his death from AIDS-related illness in 1986.
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