in light of the intense media spotlight the Panthers often found themselves under. Cox accuses Hilliard of becoming an unbearable autocrat in his role as BPP Chief of Staff, claiming Hilliard had embraced the practices of "Stalinism" and Marxism–Leninism upon reading Stalin's book Foundations of Leninism. Furthermore, Cox suggests that Hilliard began placing loyalty to the party above all else and that the slightest infraction would be cause enough for punishment, denouncement or expulsion from the Black Panther Party under his watch, with his orders being carried out by internal enforcers known as the "Black Guard" and "Buddha Samurai". Simultaneously, Cox says, Hilliard dismantled the power and authority of all other members of the Black Panther's central committee aside from himself, and that of Huey Newton, in a vicious drive for power. He died in exile in Camps-sur-l'Agly, France in February 2011. His daughter, Kimberly Cox-Marshall, had his autobiography published posthumously in 2019. Works Cox, D. (2019) Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party Heyday Books. References 1936 births 2011 deaths People from Appleton City, Missouri Activists for African-American civil rights American revolutionaries Members of the Black Panther Party American expatriates in France