The ''Ann Arbor Sun'' was a biweekly underground newspaper founded by John Sinclair in April 1967. The newspaper was originally called the ''Warren-Forest Sun'' (the name refers to the neighborhood in Detroit between Warren Avenue and Forest Avenue) before it was changed to the ''Ann Arbor Sun'' in 1968 when Trans-Love Energies moved to Ann Arbor. The organization, founded by John Sinclair, his wife

Leni Sinclair Leni Sinclair, born Magdalene Arndt, is an American photographer and radical political activist. She has photographed rock and jazz musicians since the early 1960s. She was the co-founder of the White Panther Party along with John Sinclair and Pun ...

and artist

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in 1967, set up shop in two big communal houses at 1510 and 1520 Hill St, where the ''Ann Arbor Sun'' was produced and edited by the members of the group. Early issues of the paper were printed with the silk screen and mimeograph equipment of the Artists Workshop Press, which Sinclair brought with him from Detroit to Ann Arbor. On July 28, 1969, the ''Ann Arbor Sun'' printed a revised copy of the

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's ten-point program. The newspaper was considered to be the mouthpiece for the

White Panther Party The White Panthers were an anti-racist political collective founded in November 1968 by Pun Plamondon, Leni Sinclair, and John Sinclair. It was started in response to an interview where Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, wa ...

for quite some time before the newspaper transitioned to an independent publication spreading views on local issues, left-wing politics, music, and arts. Finally in 1976, the publication of the ''Ann Arbor Sun'' was suspended indefinitely."Freeing John Sinclair: The Day Legends Came To Town."
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