B. Kwaku Duren
B. Kwaku Duren is a controversial African American lawyer, educator, writer, editor, Black Panther, longtime social, political and community activist and a former convict who now lives and practices law in South Central Los Angeles. He has run for United States Congress three times and once for Vice President of the United States. As a young man, he spent nearly five years in California prisons for armed robbery. He began reading extensively and taking college classes while incarcerated and after his parole in the fall of 1970, he founded and chaired the National Poor Peoples Congress. A couple of years later, he and his younger sister, Betty Scott, along with Mary Blackburn and other community activists, founded an alternate school the Intercommunal Youth Institute in Long Beach, California.
B. Kwaku Duren was born in Beckley, West Virginia, the hometown of his father, William Preston Brack Duren, and his mother, Willie Wade Bennett. Duren is the only son in a family of four children. His father worked as a miner, a prizefighter, and a steel mill worker.
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