It wasn’t just black folks; they allied with white liberals around the anti-war movement. “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids have you killed today?” was a frequent chant.
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Category Archives: Black Panther Party
Reggie Forte Hashtag Black Panthers At 50
Born Reginald Westly Forte, sunrise 3/31/49, Birmingham, Alabama, suset, 2/18/97, San Jose, California. His maternal step-grandmother survived the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. He and his older brother, Sherwin Forte, also a founding member of the B.P.P., met Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in high school. He attended Oakland Tech High School. In 1967 he […]
Afeni Shakur #BlackPanthersAt50
Born Alice Faye Williams sunrise 1/10/47, Lumberton, North Carolina, sunset 5/2/16, Sausalito, California. Tupac Shakur was her son. 2/6/07 she delivered the keynote address at Vanderbilt University’s Black History Month Comemoration. She founded the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foudation with revenue from Tupac’s posthumously released albums. She founded Amaru Entertainment, the holding company for all Tupac’s […]
Emory Douglas #BlackPanthersAt50
He was born 5/24/43 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). His graphic art was featured in the newspaper, The Black Panther. He was also the art director, designer, and main illustrator. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a youth […]
Fred Hampton #BlackPanthersAt50
Sunrise 8/30/48 Summit, Illinois, sunset 12/4/69 Chicago, Illinois. He was initially involved with the NAACP. He joined the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). He negotiated a nonaggression pact between Chicago’s most powerful street gangs. He developed a class consciousness multi-racial alliance between the BPP, Young Patriots Organization, and the Young […]
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The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in Oakland in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale who met in 1962 while they were both students at Merritt College. They had a Free Breakfast for Children program. The BPP provided legal aid. Then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called the BPP “ […]
Huey Newton #BlackPanthersAt50
Sunrise February 17, 1942, born Huey Percy Newton in Monroe, Louisiana (named after the former governor of Louisiana, Huey Long), sunset August 22, 1989 in Oakland, California.P. He co-founded the BPP in 1966 along with his former classmate at Merritt College in Oakland, Bobby Seale. He went to law school, loved to read (he was […]
Bobby Seale #BlackPanthersAt50
Born Robert George Seale 10/22/36 in Liberty,Texas. Co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) with Huey Newton while they were both enrolled at Merritt Community College in Oakland, California Dropped out of Berkeley High School to join the United States Air Force and was dishonorably discharged three years later for fighting. Adopted Malcolm X’s […]
Elaine Brown #BlackPanthersAt50
She was born in Philadelphia March 2, 1943. She wanted to be a professional songwriter and has albums and songs on Itunes. She has two albums, Seize the Time and Until We’re Free. She was a cocktail waitress at a strip club. After high school she studied at Temple University, UCLA, Mills, and Southwestern University […]
Eldridge Cleaver #BlackPanthersAt50
He was born Leroy Eldridge Cleaver in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, sunrise 8/31/35, sunset 5/1/98, Pomona, California. His book Soul on Ice was published in 1968 and was a collection of his essays. He was the Minister of Information and Head of International Section of the Panthers. He was the editor of the Panther newspaper. He was […]