Not exact matches
But the MPs expenses news
riot has shown just how influential local
newspapers can
be in tapping into local concerns, matching them with an expenses story and then exerting pressure.
As in Cane River, Tademy populates her tale with archival material from the period - letters,
newspaper articles, photos of her ancestors and of historical sites such as the extraordinarily tactless historical marker that still stands outside the court house in Colfax which reads, «On this site occurred the Colfax
Riot in which three white men and 150 negroes
were slain.
The figures talk about everything: local chapters around the nation; the party's free lunch program, free medical clinics, Liberation Schools, and
newspaper; Eldridge Cleaver, George Jackson, Fred Hampton, and Bobby Hutton; members
being jailed, accused of inciting a
riot, firearms charges, murder, and more; the Free Huey and Free Bobby campaigns; and the party's Ten Point Program, the principles for which it stood.
There
were riots over gas in L.A according to the
newspapers.
The British
newspaper The Guardian has compiled data on who
is being arrested for the recent
riots in the United Kingdom.