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San Francisco Bay View
April 13, 2018
She often told me about her love for the guerrilla George Jackson, field marshall of the Black Panther Party, and that she injured her body trying to be like the man she regarded as a perfect personification of a revolutionary. She also had a profound love for former Haitian President Aristide of Haiti.
Journal & Topics Newspapers Online
April 11, 2018
The series of lectures and events, “From Martin Luther King To Black Lives Matter and Mass Incarceration,” included a lecture by Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, a former Black Panther Party leader, Black Liberation Army co-founder and exonerated 19-year prisoner who later met another former political prisoner,Ãâà...
NPR
April 6, 2018
While plans went forward in Atlanta for Dr. King's funeral, Oakland's Black Panther Party had plans of its own. KATHLEEN CLEAVER: There was a plan on the part of several carloads of Panthers that evening after Martin Luther King was killed that they were going to do something to retaliate. BATES: That'sÃâà...
The Wooster Voice
April 6, 2018
Kathleen Cleaver, perhaps best known for her previous role as communications secretary for the Black Panther Party between the years 1967-1971, spoke at The College of Wooster on Thursday, March 29. Her visit was organized by the Men of Harambee (MOH), the Women of Images (WOI) and the BlackÃâà...
TeenVogue.com
April 4, 2018
By the time of his death, his views were much more closely linked to the platforms of organizations like the Black Panther Party and, more recently, the Black Lives Matter movement than any conservative organization. In 1966, a Gallup poll revealed that Dr. King had a 32% approval rating — astonishingÃâà...
BBC News
March 31, 2018
Founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, at its inception the Black Panther Party's primary role was to provide armed citizen patrols to monitor police behaviour and challenge police brutality in Oakland. The movement grew in popularity while garnering a formidable reputation for being militantÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
March 31, 2018
PASSAIC ─ It was the men, dapper in their sunglasses, berets and leather jackets, that first drew Charlotte O'Neal to the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. But it was the community service aspect of the political organization that made her stay. “I was marked – as surely as the panther tattoo on my armÃâà...
ARTnews
March 23, 2018
The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, has added to its collection the photographic archive of Stephen Shames. Known for capturing political and social activism over his 50 year career, Shames was the Black Panther Party's photographer from 1967 to 1973.
Artforum
March 23, 2018
The Briscoe Center at the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the photographic archive of Stephen Shames, who is best known for his role as the Black Panther Party's photographer between 1967 and 1973. “Shames has used his camera to document the intimate histories of a wide range of subjectsÃâà...
Black Press USA
March 14, 2018
“We are influenced by the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords,” she said. The Young Lords was a lesser known Puerto Rican organization that launched in Chicago in 1968 that became a national civil and human rights movement in nearly 30 cities. Daniel Orsini, another co-founder, explained theÃâà...
