B. Kwaku Duren, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

B. Kwaku Duren

American lawyer

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1943

Place of Birth: Beckley, West Virginia, United States

Profession: lawyer, attorney at law

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About B. Kwaku Duren

  • B.
  • Kwaku Duren (born April 14, 1943; a.k.a., Robert Donaldson Duren and Bob D.
  • Duren) is a controversial African American 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 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.
  • He began reading extensively and taking college classes while incarcerated and after his parole in the fall of 1970, he founded and chaired the National Poor People's Congress.
  • A couple of years later, he and his younger sister, Betty Scott, along with Mary Blackburn and other community activists, founded an alternate school – the Intercommunal Youth Institute (1972–1975) – in Long Beach, California. In the wake of the shooting death of his sister by a California Highway Patrol officer during a routine traffic stop, Duren helped found and was a co-chair of the Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA) from 1975–77.
  • From 1976 to 1981 he was the Coordinator of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party (SCC/BPP).
  • From 1979 until 1991 he worked for the Los Angeles Legal Aid Foundation, beginning as a Community Outreach Worker; later, as a paralegal and attorney; he was one of the founding members and first president of the Union of Legal Services Workers of Los Angeles (AFL-CIO/UAW). Duren attended law school at the Peoples College of Law in Los Angeles.
  • He graduated in fall of 1989 and was admitted to the California State Bar on August 8, 1990.
  • He has worked as a “people’s” lawyer and community activist in South Central Los Angeles ever since. A founding member of Community Services Unlimited, Inc., he was its Executive Director from 1977–2008.
  • As Chairman of the New Panther Vanguard Movement – since 1994 – Duren was co-editor-in-chief, with his ex-wife, Neelam Sharma, of The Black Panther International News Service, a quarterly newspaper published in Los Angeles from 1995 to 2001.

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