Black Panther Party founder Bobby Seale lost his lawsuit against makers of the 1995 film Panther, who he accused of depicting him unfairly and downplaying his commitment to nonviolence in an otherwise sympathetic film. But as fellow Panther leader Elaine Brown wrote in her memoirs, on one occasion she failed to meet an editorial deadline at the Black Panther Party newspaper, so Seale ordered her stripped and flogged.

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