Feds pull funding for Black Panther legacy project in Berkeley after backlash

Published October 29, 2017 5:48pm ET



A Black Panther Party legacy project at the University of California Berkeley will no longer proceed after the National Park Service bowed to pressure applied by conservative organizations and pulled federal funding, according to a report.

“After an additional review of the project, the [National Park Service] decided not to move forward with funding the project,” spokesman Craig Dalby told SFGate, referring the “Black Panther Party Research, Interpretation & Memory Project.”

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