Almost six decades ago in Chicago, during the rise of the Black Panther Party, Flint Taylor, a white, twenty-something law student, helped start the People’s Law Office. Like Flint, the People’s Law Office has been around ever since, defending people excluded from the political power grid against systemic discrimination and racist abuse. One of the PLO’s first cases, in fact, involved exposing the 1969 shooting deaths of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark as FBI-orchestrated assassinations—not, as the public was meant to believe, another cops-vs-thugs gun battle. For years at the People’s Law Office, Flint has worked through hundreds of subsequent cases, including some that proved instrumental in bringing to light a police torture ring, led for over twenty years by Chicago Police Department Commander Jon Burge. READ MORE
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