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==Black Panther Party==
==Black Panther Party==
Karen Bass was a member of the [[Black Panther Party]].<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Grit-Impossible-Improbable-Inspirational/dp/0143113224 Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Political Change], By Laura Flanders, page 102]</ref> Bass was heavily involved with the [[Maoist]] Line of March.
Karen Bass was a member of the [[Black Panther Party]].<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Grit-Impossible-Improbable-Inspirational/dp/0143113224 Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Political Change], By Laura Flanders, page 102]</ref> Bass was heavily involved with the [[Maoist]] Line of March. Line of March was a Bay Area [[Marxist-Leninist]] organization founded in 1980. It became the Frontline Political Organization and later [[Crossroads]], founded in conjunction with the [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization]],<ref>[http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2002/msg03620.htm Marxism, archives of University of Utah]</ref> now called [[Liberation Road]].
It was part of a movement of communist organizations in the 1970s called, The Trend. Other organizations included the [[Communist Party USA]], Maoist New Communist Movement, the [[National Guardian]] newspaper, Guardian Clubs, CrossRoads, Organizing Committee for an Ideological Center, El Committee-MINP, and other groups.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Air-Sixties-Radicals-Lenin/dp/1859846173 Elbaum, Max. ''Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che''. Verso, 2002.]</ref>
Line of March published ''Frontline''. In 1990 the organization briefly morphed into the Frontline Political Organization. Bass still works closely with former members.<ref>https://federalobserver.com/2019/10/2019-list-of-socialists-and-communists-in-congress/</ref>
In a May 5 2005 exchange on Yahoo group Atzlannet, Los Angeles [[Communist Party USA]] organizer Rosalio Munoz revealed his own early connection to Karen Bass, and the of another communist Leroy Parra. He revealed that communists had indeed been [part of Bass's movement, and that she had been a member of the Venceremos Brigade, whose members traveled to Cuba to do agricultural work in support of the Cuban revolution.<ref>[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetworkAztlan_News/message/11773, Atzlannnet Re: [Aztlannet_News] Re: Who Killed Neto Falcon: Thu May 5, 2005 8:16 am]</ref>
In a May 5 2005 exchange on Yahoo group Atzlannet, Los Angeles [[Communist Party USA]] organizer Rosalio Munoz revealed his own early connection to Karen Bass, and the of another communist Leroy Parra. He revealed that communists had indeed been [part of Bass's movement, and that she had been a member of the Venceremos Brigade, whose members traveled to Cuba to do agricultural work in support of the Cuban revolution.<ref>[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetworkAztlan_News/message/11773, Atzlannnet Re: [Aztlannet_News] Re: Who Killed Neto Falcon: Thu May 5, 2005 8:16 am]</ref>
Many of Karen Bass' early influences were from West Los Angeles white and Jewish leftist circles;
Many of Karen Bass' early influences were from West Los Angeles white and Jewish leftist circles;
{{quotebox|It (the white left) played a huge role for me. In Hamilton (High School) for instance, lots of the Jewish parents were activists. Some of them were in the Communist Party. So I grew up with a lot of red diaper babies. And there were some African American parents who were in the Communist Party. There were teachers who were in the Communist Party. So white radicals were very influential. And at the same time you have the Panthers and the whole Black movement."<ref>[Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities
edited by Darnell M. Hunt, Ana-Christina Ramón page 137]</ref>
edited by Darnell M. Hunt, Ana-Christina Ramón page 137]</ref>}}
==Kente clothe controversy==
==Kente clothe controversy==