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Huey Remixed 1969: Free Huey, Cuban Postcard

Around 1969 in Cuba, the collage of Huey P. Newton in a rattan chair positioned inside the mouth of a red-eyed black panther, was published on a postcard.

“When [George Mason] Murray [Black Panther Minister of Education] traveled to Cuba in August 1968 to promote the “Free Huey!” campaign [and to represent the Black Panthers at a conference sponsored by the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL)], leaders of anticolonial and revolutionary movements around the globe embraced the Panthers.” (Bloom 2016, 270)