Detroit poet, author, legalisation campaigner, manager of the MC5 rock band, White Panther Party co-founder, and early Fifth Estate writer
John Sinclair (1941-2024)
Tag: Detroit
Film Review: Detroit
The misnamed film “Detroit” is more about a triple slaying by police than the city’s 1967 Rebellion. Director: Kathryn Bigelow Released August 2017 143 min Reviewed by William Boyer It first opened in the Motor City in July, and then nationwide 50 years to the day of the final riot fatality, a firefighter electrocuted trying to
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