Brittany Luce

I kind of wish I was one of them.

Oh, wow.

I'm guessing that that rowdiness and revolutionary fervor eventually burst out of the Turner Halls.

Yes, you would be correct.

I don't know.

I'm wondering, like, do you think all that gymnastics like helped the Turners fight the Confederates?

Like, did that factor?

I think you could be right about that.

Coming up.

Stick around.

I mean, the Panthers, you know, the police and the feds were really targeting them.

Like a lot of these revolutionaries were getting gunned down.

But I think when most people think about the Panthers and their methods of defense, they think about the firearms that their members carried.

But I feel like it's less widely known that martial arts were also a part of their self-defense programming.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, I feel like everything is all about like personal gains.

Body transformation.

And it's a lot more about you and how much you can lift and how you look.

What about the community aspect?

That seemed like a really big piece of the Turner's Halls and the Black Power martial arts practices.