A fresh look at the surprising contemporary relevance of the newly released Black Panther documentary | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

LOS ANGELES — Huey P. Newton and Eldridge Cleaver are dead, Bobby Seale is 78, Kathleen Cleaver is 70, the events that turned all of them into national figures are decades in the past. So how is it that “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” comes off as the most relevant and contemporary of documentaries?…