Leaving Cleaver - Henry Louis Gates Jr Remembers Eldridge Cleaver (2008)

Synopsis: Author and Black Panther Party member Eldridge Cleaver met with the critic and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. for an in-depth discussion in early 1997. Cleaver died shortly after the interview, and... Author and Black Panther Party member Eldridge Cleaver met with the critic and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. for an in-depth discussion in early 1997. Cleaver died shortly after the interview, and this presentation reflects on both that meeting and a past discussion between the two that occurred in 1975. [More]