while cooling his heels in the slammer
...for torturing all night long two young girls, Gail Davis and Deborah Brown, with a vice, an electrical cord, caustic detergeant, and a soldering iron. Karenga, lead of a violent racist gang, went on to order his thugs to shoot and kill members of the Black Panthers in a UCLA Student Union building hallway in an attempt to gain control of the Black Studies Program. Apparently these qualifications are prerequisite to have your invented "holiday" observed by George W. Bush and to be given chairmanship of the Black Studies program at Cal State Long Beach.