Greetings and Solidarity to each of you. In recognition of your individual voice, influence, and cultural following among current generations of Black people/Africans in the Diaspora and on the continent, we salute you. While we only know you from the public domain, we know that many of you come from backgrounds where you faced poverty,…
Category: Black Panther Party
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party
Bobby Seale Seize The Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This book derives from tape recordings made by Bobby Seale in the early autumn of 1968 and the autumn and winter of 1969-70. The first series was made with the cooperation of the editors of Ramparts magazine. The second series was…
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for…
Black Self-Defense is Important, But Ideology is Paramount
Yafeuh Balogon, a leader of the Dallas-based Huey P. Newton Gun Club, which advocates armed Black self-defense, said the club was inspired by the “founding of the Black Panther Party, more than half a century ago. When armed white supremacists tried to stage a show of force in the Black section of Dallas in 2016,…
Black Panther Commander Huey P. Newton: Speech at the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention (1970)
Speaker 6: So I bring you Huey P. Newton, the Minister of Defense and our Supreme Commander. Huey P. Newton: I applaud you because you’re all such beautiful people, and the power is with you. And as soon as we realize that, we’ll make many changes. As a matter of fact, we will transform the…
Black Panther Michael Tabor: Keynote at the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention (1970)
Keynote address by Michael Tabor on the history of the United States and the political objectives of the Black Panthers. Another speech from the same convention by Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton is available here. Recorded by radio station KPFA in 1970, the speech was editied somewhat for length. The full version can be heard…
Black Women With Guns
From Harriet Tubman to female members of the Black Panther Party, Black women have always played a role in armed resistance in the United States, said Jasmine Young, a doctoral fellow at the University of California’s Department of African American Studies. Young is working on a manuscript titled, “Black Women with Guns: Armed Resistance in…
Fred Hampton’s Death is Just One Example of the Government’s Covert Disruption of Black Lives
Monique Judge At a rally outside the U.S. Courthouse October 29, 1969, Dr. Benjamin Spock, background, listens to Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther party. It was part of a protest against the trial of eight persons accused of conspiracy to cause a riot during the Democratic National Convention in 1968. In the…
In the Spirit of George Jackson: We Are the Revolutionary Force that Can Free the People
Kamau Askari (Roscoe Abell) Many New Afrikans (Blacks) for some reason think that the revolution is dead. The revolution is not dead. It is the spirit of the people that is dead. They have forgotten their history. And since their spirit is dead, the revolution is at a standstill or stagnant. Revolution means to bring…
Ahmad Sa’adat: Prisons, the Black Liberation Movement and the Struggle for Palestine Prisoners
Ahmad Sa’adat The following article, by imprisoned Palestinian national liberation movement leader Ahmad Sa’adat – the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – was originally published in French as the preface to the new French-language edition of “Revolutionary Suicide” by Huey Newton. On 15 October – the anniversary of the…
Intercommunalism: The Late Theorizations of Huey P. Newton, ‘Chief Theoretician’ of the Black Panther Party
Delio Vasquez Black Panther leader Huey Newton holds a press conference in San Francisco after returning from a meeting with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai in China. Newton is facing his third trial on charges of killing a police officer. October 8 1971 On September 5, 1970, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party…
Intercommunalism (1974): The Political Thought of Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton On September 5, 1970, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (BPP), introduced his theory of intercommunalism at the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. 1 He later expanded on this theory before an audience at Boston College in November of that year, and then again In February 1971 during…
