Soledad Brothers was formed in 1998 in Maumee, Ohio.  The name is taken from a trio of former members of the Black Panther Party who became known as the Soledad Brothers; they had been convicted of killing a white prison guard in Soledad Prison in California in January 1970.  Efforts by a number of celebrities eventually resulted in acquittal during a new trial in March 1972, though George Jackson had previously been killed during a prison uprising in 1971, and the other two are evidently still incarcerated. 

(February 2015)