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B. Kwaku Duren

1943–

United States

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B. Kwaku Duren (born April 14, 1943; a.k.a., Robert Donaldson Duren and Bob D. Duren) is an American former lawyer, educator, writer, editor, Black Panther, long-time social, political and community activist; and a former convict who now lives and practices law in South Central Los Angeles. He has run for the United States Congress three times and once for Vice President of the United States. As a young man, he spent nearly five years in California prisons for armed robbery.

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