Khalid Abdul Muhammad was the militant spokesman of the Nation of Islam and Chairman of the New Black Panther Party. Born Harold Moor Jr. on January 12th, 1948, Khalid Abdul Muhammad was the second of six children to the late Harold Moore, Sr. and Lottie B. Moore. His Aunt Momma...

#TeamBeautiful remembers the the phenomenal women who paved the way for us to enjoy the lives we have today.

This lesson introduces students to the Black Panther Party and the vital lessons for today’s movement to confront racism and police violence.

An upcoming book of photographs offers a peek at the complicated story of what it has meant to be black and female in the United States

COINTELPRO was a counterintelligence program run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from roughly 1956 to 1976. It combined the efforts of the Bureau and local police forces to track, harass, discredit, infiltrate, destroy, and destabilize dissident groups in the United States. COINTELPRO targeted … Read MoreCOINTELPRO [Counterintelligence Program] (1956-1976)

In his film The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, black documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson slices and dices the history of the Black Panther Party into a two-dimensional palliative for white people and Negroes who are comfortable in America’s oppressive status quo. His film, a collage of personalized vignettes by erstwhile and self-professed Party members, culminating in the complete excoriation of the Party’s guiding genius, Huey P. Newton, is at once shocking and disappointing. It is also condemnable.

Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party.

In an extract from Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties, Mike Davis and Jon Wiener look past the sun and surf to a radical fight for equality and justice

Angela Davis Women of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, 1969. Panther Girls -- Children outside of a liberation school in San Francisco Law

Women of the Black Panther Party 1. Dorthory Phillips & Leslie Booker - National HQ Oakland. 2. Kathleen Cleaver - Central Committee. 3. Safiya Burhari - Harlem NY. 4. Sisters working @ People...

Is Mrs. Obama really the first black First Lady? Which US bill features a black man? You’ll be surprised at the historical figures you didn’t know were black.

Due to its brief tenure as London’s resident countercultural grassroots movement, little is known about the British Black Panthers. Luckily, Neil Kenlock took it upon himself to become their photographer, capturing images of their meetings, campaigns...

“The majority of overstayers were British or American. But, in 1974, under the Labour Government, 107 Tongans, 24 Sāmoans and 2 Americans were deported. Meanwhile, arrests of Pacific overstayers continued.” — Dr Melani Anae.

Neil Kenlock's photos give the Brixton-based group the profile they deserve.

By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca On March 8, 1971 — while Muhammad Ali was fighting Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden, and as millions sat glued to their TVs watching the bout unfold — a group of peace activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every document they could find. Delivered to the press, these documents revealed an FBI conspiracy — known as COINTELPRO — to disrupt and destroy a wide range of protest groups, including the Black freedom movement. The break-in, and the government treachery it revealed, is a chapter of our not-so-distant past that all high school students — and all the rest of us — should learn, yet one that history textbooks continue to ignore.

This is the most beautiful and rewarding book I have read in a long time [1]. As an old white First World male, there are not a lot of books that emotionally stir me to tears. This is a rare gem for me in that regard. The book reaches into growing up black, self-discovery through bold exploration, and dignity-preserving rebellion that should not be driven from any soul. The experiences are real and positioned in history with a candid view of the outside turmoil and its impact on self, family, and the black nation. Assata was in many places in the 1960s and 1970s and directly involved: segregated USA, grunge-job exploitation, aspiring middle-class climbers, campus mobilization, community education, black liberation, American Indian Movement resistance, Black Panther outreach, underground, COINTELPRO repression, mammoth legal system battles, giving life as struggle, and her own near-death survival and escape from maximum security prison to Cuba. The critics that bash the book as Shakur's political ranting are out to lunch. The book is mostly a personal and historic voyage recounted with extreme sensitivity and flair. It is not a political essay or party propaganda by any stretch! I had a few criticisms regarding Shakur's recommendations for the struggle. Shakur's pedagogy with young children is inspired but her view of the importance of formal education in black struggle, in my opinion, is misguided. She was not aware of the work of Paulo Freire which was first published in English in 1970. Although she knew about theology of liberation, Shakur did not have theoretical knowledge about the central role of the praxis of liberation in learning [2]. This despite the fact that her own learning was predominantly achieved by praxis. As a result, Shakur would have designed formal college-style education for Black Panther cadres. This suggests that her development was partially polluted by institutional college education. Similarly, Shakur appears to not have been aware of the anarchist critiques of socialism and communism. Her suggestion to moderate the rebellion of independent Black Panther operatives driven underground in view of its perception by the mainstream struggle is a carbon copy of present activist discussions around "violence" and, in my opinion, is counterproductive [3]. This is a minor point in the book but whereas Shakur correctly taps into her own rebellion and life force throughout this period in her life she fails to realize that tapping into such individual rebellion is the life-source of emancipatory revolution [3]; rather than depending only on organizational discipline coupled with ideological education. References [1] "Assata: An Autobiography" by Assata Shakur [2] "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire [3] "Symbiosis of anarchy and hierarchy" by Denis G. Rancourt

Fifty years ago, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party; photographer Stephen Shames provides an intimate look at the black nationalist group

In the mid-1960s, a group of Mexican youth leaders dedicated to education reform and community service, called the Young Citizens for Community Action, emerged.

The Trinidad Moruga “Scorpion” Pepper has officially been ranked as the world’s hottest pepper by the Guinness Book of Records. Trinidad and Tobago-born

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Le photographe a côtoyé les membres des Black Panthers à la fin des années 1960. Il en livre une vision précise et belle à découvrir à la Maison Folie

We need a movement for the long haul. Nurturing ourselves physically, emotionally and spiritually will make it sustainable.

The images of "All Power to the People! Graphics of the Black Panther Party, USA" revisit this social/political movement during the years 1967 to 1973.

Today, Argentina is considered the whitest country in South America, with just 0.365 percent of the population identifying as Afro-Argentine, yet 200 years ago, black people made up more than 1/3 of the country. Read more about Argentina's colonization and the sudden and drastic disappearance of bla

An early 20th-century NAACP map showing lynchings between 1909 and 1918. The maps were sent to politicians and newspapers in an effort to spur legislation...

Condemnation of Democratic congresswomen is xenophobic, dangerous and flat-out false

How the creation of a movement centered around black art and tradition influenced a culture in America The Black Arts Movement was primarily a movement for cultivating black culture in America…