Jennifer Abdo’s Reviews > We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party > Status Update

It was the stuff of bitter hopes, of frustrated dreams, a will-o'-the-wisp of Black desires that caught on the wind's ragged updrafts, and spread like a fire in the mind, across vast distances.

To many black and white radical youth of today, the very existence of the Black Panther Party seems almost miraculous. To many of the young people who worked, lived, and loved in the Party, however, the Pay was not a miracle, but a bright, shining reality, one born of radical necessity.