This book is the outcome of an archival war and a reckoning over how struggle will be remembered and narrated to future generations.

Born in the Storm is a genre-defying narrative of the life of Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, a leader in the Black Panther Party, soldier in the Black Liberation Army, and political prisoner whose nineteen-year legal struggle against the FBI proved his incarceration was the result of a COINTELPRO frame-up and resulted in his release from prison in 1990. This book tells that story while immersing us within Dhoruba's revolutionary analysis of U.S. history, global empire, political theory, counterinsurgency, media studies, and more.

A book unique in content as well as form, the text is multimodal, combining a variety of narrative styles including biography, autobiography, anthology, and documentary history. Its unorthodox arrangement is meant to provide a seamless narrative while reflecting the relentless fractures, dislocations, and imposed silences that shaped Dhoruba's intellectual and political development. Its approach compels readers to grapple with the various terrains upon which Bin-Wahad--the revolutionary, the artist, the combatant, the thinker, the man--righteously struggled throughout his life. Filled with new details and original archival material, this book will change your understanding of the 1960s/1970s, the Black Panther Party, and the prison industrial complex.