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The Black Panther Party Edition 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE - OCTOBER 2016 $2.00 SPECIAL SPECIAL EDITION THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY EDITION ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! PAGE 2 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PAGE 3 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION COMMEMORATION REVOLUTIONARY AND CELEBRATION 50 YEARS OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Looking back at the Black Panther A small group of young Black men with chapters and branches open- to survive outside the bound of U.S. Party is like looking at a large land- got together and explored ideas ing in Richmond, Vallejo, Marin bounty hunters. scape of people, locations and events of ways to confront and solve racial City, San Francisco, San Diego and in time and space – 1966-1974. injustice. Hanging out around the Los Angeles. To the north, we had Over the last 50 years, many ded- campus of Oakland City College chapters open in Seattle, Washing- icated and hardworking comrades As memory fades with getting old- and North Oakland were the core ton and Portland, Oregon. Easterly have moved on and/or passed and er, I will not try to document details group that made up the Black Pan- we had chapters in Denver, Kansas gone. However, what they stood of people, dates and events. How- ther Party (BPP): Bobby Seale, Li’l City, Omaha, Des Moines, Hous- for remains. Despite overwhelm- ever, I tend to remember working Bobby Hutton, Reggie, Sherman ton, Milwaukee, New Orleans, ing odds, this group of young October 20-23, 2016 Oakland, California with some of the most dynamic, re- Forte, Elbert “Big Man” Howard and Memphis, Chattanooga, Nashville, people made things happen in the Huey Newton. Atlanta, Detroit, Winston-Salem, community for change. Hopefully, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washing- what they did will be remembered I first took notice of the impact and ton DC, Jersey City, New Haven, and be an inspiration for future reach of the BPP in 1966 when a Bridgeport, Boston and I am sure generations to come. Party member who had just re- there are some that I have missed, There are some lessons learned from turned from New York came by but not intentionally. At any rate, the Grove Street office and report- the BPP of 50 years ago that apply the people involved are what is to community organizers of today: ed that a chapter was developing in most important. Those who did the Harlem. The brother’s name was work and most of all those who 1. Be open and willing to change, Pennywell. He was not around paid the price and are still paying if something does not work, find a WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? very long. I think he returned to sourceful and dedicated community the price, imprisoned for many way to change it. organizers on the planet. Oakland, New York to continue to organize. years on trumped up charges. to its ideology and political positions, its 2. Always listen to others, wheth- BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOBBY HUTTON GROVE California, 1966 became the birth- national and international coalitions and al- From that period on, the Party er you use their suggestions or not. TH place of the Black Panther Party. Many Panthers were forced to 50 ANNIVERSARY liances, its more than 30 Survival Programs, Ever since the Oakland police murder of grew very rapidly in California leave the United States and live in 3. Admit to your mistakes and HOST COMMITTEE including its well-known Free Breakfast for Bobby Hutton, the first member of the exile rather than face death or im- correct them. Children program and free clinics, its cultural Black Panther Party, on April 6, 1968, Par- prisonment. Pete O’Neal, lead- 4. Never ever lie. ty members and the people of Oakland have October 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the and artistic endeavors, its model school and er of the Kansas City Chapter, 5. Always deliver on your promises. founding of the Black Panther Party in Oak- weekly newspaper, as well as examine the gov- referred to DeFremery Park in West Oak- went to Tanzania and continues 6. Make a life and death commit- land, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby ernment’s assault on the Party, celebrate the land as Bobby Hutton Park. Now, over 45 to work and teach based on his ex- ment to your beliefs. Seale. An ad hoc group of former Party mem- Party’s fallen Comrades and pay homage years later, on the occasion of this 50th perience in the Black Panther Par- 7. Practice what you preach bers in Northern California has come togeth- to those who remain incarcerated as political Anniversary, the City of Oakland has final- ty. Assata Shakur, who worked in Be willing to face death for what er and developed a powerful program for the prisoners to this day. ly officially renamed a significant por- the BPP Free Breakfast Program in you believe in and spit in the fact of celebration and commemoration of the legacy tion of the Park as Bobby Hutton Grove. East Harlem, New York, escaped People who want to register for the Com- your oppressors. and the history of the Party, the theme of which There will be a naming ceremony at the to Cuba after being shot by po- memoration, make dinner reservations Grove on October 23 as the closing event is “Where do we go from here?” Former Party lice in New Jersey, at which time Elbert “Big Man” Howard or advertise in the souvenir book should members from around the country and support- of the 50th Anniversary Commemoration, Zayd Shakur was killed. A Million AN ORIGINAL BPP FOUNDING FATHER go to the Host Committee website: ers from around the world will be coming to where 500 bags of free groceries will be dis- Dollar bounty has been placed on P.O. Box 5766 Oakland for this Commemoration. www.bpp50th.com tributed to the community, in commemoration Santa Rosa, CA 95402 Assata by the US Department of Website: www.bigman-bpp.com of the spirit of the Black Panther Party. Email: [email protected] For further information, contact Aida Mariam. Photo by Pirkle Jones Injustice. So far she has been able OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA CELEBRATION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY Registration for commemoration events will I believe that we must still want: open on October 20, 2016, and the events will take place from October 21 through October OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY 1. We Want Freedom, we want the 23. While the City of Oakland has opened up To My Fellow Comrades of the I still hold high the principles of like a California brush fire and I power to determine the destiny of City Hall Plaza for use during the three-day Black Panther Party the Party. This 50th celebration want to say that it has been an honor our community Commemoration, where local and national Greetings to you my sisters and finds me bent, but unbroken; my and privilege to be a Black Panther. 2. We want full employment for musicians and artists will perform throughout brothers, fellow comrades of the head bloodied, but unbowed; my I salute the founding brothers of the our people the Commemoration, the majority of events, Black Panther Party for self-de- spirit strong and defiant. BPP and all of our fallen comrades, 3. We want decent housing fit for including film showings, exhibits, workshops fense. It is with honor that I reach The Black Panther Party started and to all of you my comrades for the4 shelter of human beings and panel discussions, will be held in the rooms out to y’all during this historic event. out with just five members standing as vanguards of our com- 4. We want education for our peo- and spaces of the magnificent 7.5 acre Oakland When I was asked by my longtime in Oakland, CA, in 1966 munities during the ple that exposes the true nature of Museum of California. The biggest event will friend/comrade Shaka Cinque aka and grew to as many as most difficult time the decadent American society take place on Saturday evening, October 22, the of our history. Albert Woodfox to participate in 5,000 members within a 5. We want an immediate end to actual date of the founding of the Party, in the this celebration by simply writing a two-year period. It “police brutality and the murder of Museum’s beautiful, spacious garden. letter, I could not resist. spread from its Black people” All workshops, exhibits and events will explore Although I have been held cap- base in Oakland I remain as defiant as ever in the the significance of the Party, from its 1966 be- tive here on the largest plantation to as many as for- stationary slave ship. ginning as the Black Panther Party for Self-De- in the United States of America ty different cities Kenny Zulu Whitmore fense with its 10-Point Platform and Program Photo collage by Yasmeen Sutton for forty-two years, the Louisi- throughout the ana State Penitentiary at Angola, country. It spread Albert Woodfox with Kenny “Zulu” Whitmore PAGE 4 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PAGE 5 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION REMEMBERING THE BLACK BLACK PANTHER PARTY PANTHER PARTY NEWSPAPER CHAPTERS & BRANCHES APRIL 25, 1967- SEPTEMBER 1980 by Billy X Jennings CALIFORNIA IOWA NORTH CAROLINA The paper sold for 25 cents. In the beginning, Winston-Salem each person selling the newspaper got a dime Bakersfield Des Moines from each copy. Berkeley LOUISIANA High Point Every Panther had to read and study the newspa- Compton New Orleans per before selling it.
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