Six years down with a lifetime to go.

In late October 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Searle, who had met at Merritt College, a public community college in Oakland, California, founded the Black Panther Party. Originally the Panthers were more about community organisation and could almost have been described as a neighbourhood watch scheme (the original name was the Black Panther Party of … Continue reading "Extraordinary Pictures, Posters and Flyers of the Black Panther Party, 1967-1972"

Miami gains a new artists’ collective with studios and a gallery in The Laundromat Art Space.

Black Panther Party

Celebrate Black excellence and revolutionary spirit with the powerful legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. #BlackExcellence #BlackPantherParty

Comrade Sisters contains 100 photographs by photographer Stephen Shames that tell the story of the women of the Black Panther Party.