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Inside a Black Panther Family Album

Hyperallergic·Leigh Raiford·about 2 months ago
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"Joju & Maceo [Cleaver], Hydra 1970" from Kathleen Cleaver's family photo album (© Kathleen Neal Cleaver Archive; album photo John Stephens, image courtesy Kathleen Neal Cleaver Archive) Editor's Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from   When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World by Leigh Raiford, published by Duke University Press on April 14 and available online and in bookstores. Text Copyright Duke University Press, 2026. This photograph by Jeffrey Blankfort is one of the few images in which Maceo and Joju Cleaver appear alone together as siblings, without one or both of their parents, Black Panther Party (BPP) leaders Eldridge Cleaver and Kathleen Neal Cleaver. They are nestled into a single chair side by side, their arms touching. Even so, there is room to spare, which gives a greater view of the chair. I turn to the chair’s very cute occupants in a moment. First, let’s talk about the chair itself.…

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