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In the Name of the Father and the Daughter: The Rise of a New Generation of Black Panthers

“We are not erasing them,” Mônica says. “We are completing them.” Not all the daughters had fathers who lived to see their victories. Many of the original Panthers were killed, disappeared, or died from state-sanctioned violence. What remains is absence—and memory. as panteras em nome do pai e da filha

, 26, never met her father. He was killed in a police raid in 1996, when her mother was seven months pregnant. Growing up, she knew him only through his writings: notebooks filled with poetry, political theory, and a single line underlined: “My daughter will be free.”

Janaína is one of dozens of women now organizing under a new, informal banner: (Daughters of the Panthers). They are lawyers, psychologists, programmers, and community organizers. Their logo is not a snarling cat, but a panther’s silhouette cradling a child. The Daughter’s Strategy The original Panthers were confrontational. These daughters are strategic . — End of feature — In the Name

That girl is now a woman. And she is not alone.

The original Panthers are mostly gone. But in every girl who raises her fist—not in anger, but in awareness—the panther lives again. What remains is absence—and memory

Today, Carolina is a doctoral candidate in political philosophy at USP. Her dissertation? “Afrofuturism and the Daughter’s Gaze.”