![]() ![]() For the past few months, he had been working as a consultant to the Coalition on Diversity at the University of La Verne, 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. "Cleaver's greatest contribution was coalition politics," Hilliard said.Ĭleaver lived in Berkeley for many years, but moved to Southern California a few years ago and lived most recently in Pomona. He was extraordinary because he was so energetic and so gentle and so visionary."įormer Panther chief of staff David Hilliard said yesterday that he first met Cleaver in 1966 and thought he was "the personification of Malcolm X." ![]() I saw him come out of that and come alive, and flourish and develop. Reflecting on Cleaver's heyday, she said, "He was a very brilliant, very quiet and very stately individual who had been consigned to state prison to be warehoused. ![]() "He also had diabetes, and he was being treated for prostate cancer," she said. His former wife, Kathleen Cleaver, said from New York that she learned that "some time in the last 24 hours he had a heart attack." ![]()
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