Black power movement

On August 18, 1970, Angela Yvonne Davis’s name was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List for kidnapping, murder, and interstate flight. Davis was already a darling of the left for her membership in the Communist Party and outspoken support for the Black Panthers, which caused then-California governor Ronald Reagan to personally orchestrate the … Continue reading "Images of Angela Davis, From FBI Flyers to Radical Chic Art"

The Black Power movement turns fifty this year. Two new digital exhibitions explore the multiform and ideologically diverse movement that d…

Black Panther Party, African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Created to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality, the Panthers eventually developed into a Marxist revolutionary group.

America isn't exactly a bastion of corporate regulation, but I know what you mean. Pot dealers don't put up billboards making pot look cool, though.

From the Civil Rights Movement to the Black Panther era and Black Lives Matter, fashion has played a key role in the message of a protest.

Protesters including Mexican American Brown Berets, a Black Panther and Chinese Americans holding signs, "Yellow Peril Supports Black Power" and "Free Huey," ...

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"