in the spotlight tonight an epic story of the shaping of america we all need to know. a toddler named huey newton was spirited to oakland. his father barely escaped a lynching in louisiana for talking back to white overseers. he would become the most militant of the disillusioned offspring of the great migration. he founded the black panther party in 1976 and reveled in discomforting the white sabment with black beret and rhetoric. another boy took an entirely different path. he would become one of the greatest basketball players of