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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress but Huey's chair's empty.

H. Rap Brown

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H. Rap Brown
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: October 4
Activist
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
Hubert Gerold Brown
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