During a recent conversation about Soul on Ice, the provocative manifesto/memoir written by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver while incarcerated at Folsom State Prison in 1965, the Indiana Pacers forward couldn’t help but relate the current moment to the world Cleaver described. As Cleaver wrote: “Yet he is being told that it will take time to get programs started, to pass legislation, to educate white people into accepting the idea that black people want and deserve freedom.”