It’s been nearly 40 years since J. Edgar Hoover set undercover FBI operatives and informants on the trail of the Black Panther Party. That was the group founded in Oakland, Calif., by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to combat police aggression and social injustice in the black community, boasting as many as 50,000 members nationally before splintering in the early 1970s and finally dissolving in 1977.

But the harsh memories and confusing array of finger-pointing and accusations that

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