— MICHAEL HOERGER, NMAAHC This is a timeline poster about violence and killings against Black Panther members by the police. This rectangular poster consists of rows of squares that mark the days of each month. Various squares are blacked out or filled with color or patterns. These colors and patterns correspond to a legend at […]
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Black Women Weren’t Just Part Of Britain’s Black Panther Movement, They Led It | Refinery29
By Aida Amako, Refinery29 The Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 were not the first time British people have taken to the streets to protest for their civil rights. If you don’t know this, it’s because Black British history is not properly taught in our schools. The British Black Panther movement was founded in London in 1968. During that year […]
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Girl, 12, Describes Killing Of a Black Panther Here | The New York Times
— Max H. Seigel, The New York Times About the ArchiveThis is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors […]
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The Last Hours of William O’Neal | Chicago Reader
He was the informant who gave the FBI the floor plan of Fred Hampton’s apartment. Last week he ran onto the Eisenhower Expressway and killed himself.
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Ex-Black Panther Elaine Brown awarded $4 million in punitive damages | The Philadelphia Tribune
OAKLAND, Calif. — A Northern California jury awarded more than $4 million in punitive damages to a former leader of the Black Panthers who was injured after an Oakland councilwoman punched and pushed her during an argument over housing.
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Black October: An Introduction | Black Perspectives
As Black communists grew in number and the Communist International gained in force, so too did anti-communism.
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8 Black Panther Party Programs That Were More Empowering Than Federal Government Programs – Atlanta Black Star
The Black Panther Party is known for its tremendous efforts to obtain justice for African-Americans during the civil rights movement. Their impact on history can be showcased through the numerous programs created to help the Black community.
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The story of the British Black Panthers through race, politics, love and power – The Guardian
The experience of black people in the UK in the 1970s is examined in Guerrilla, a new drama series written by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley. Now that story finds echoes in a powerful exhibition of photographs of the time.
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The Black Panthers’ Overlooked Revolution
Fifty years later, four women who helped build the party look back on the less-attention-grabbing part of its history.
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Reconsidering the Black Panthers Through Photos
A black man helps an older African-American woman as she shops in an Oakland, Calif., supermarket. The image from 1972, by Stephen Shames, documents an initiative to protect the elderly in a crime-ridden neighborhood.
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