50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE - OCTOBER 2016 $2.00 SPECIAL SPECIAL EDITION THE 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): , Li’l City, Omaha, Des Moines, Hous- for remains. Despite overwhelm- ever, I tend to remember working , Reggie, Sherman ton, Milwaukee, , ing odds, this group of young October 20-23, 2016 Oakland, 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. , 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 , 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 High Point

Every Panther had to read and study the newspa- Compton New Orleans per before selling it. Big cities like LA, Chicago, Fresno MARYLAND OHIO NY, Seattle and Kansas City were distribution centers for the BPP newspapers in their regions. Long Beach Baltimore Cincinnati Vol. II, No.30 - April 20,1969 Los Angeles Cleveland Sam Napier, Andrew Austin and Ellis White from National Distribution in San Francisco were the Watts MASSACHUSETTS Columbus heart and soul of the newspaper. They worked Oakland Boston Dayton endless hours making sure the paper reached its destinations and were always looking for new lo- Richmond Cambridge Toledo cations to “get the paper out.” Riverside New Bedford Wednesday night was when the paper came out. Sacramento OKLAHOMA Every Panther in the Bay Area came to help “get San Diego MICHIGAN Oklahoma City the paper out.” When the paper came off the press, it went to the SF office and we packed it San Francisco Detroit Tulsa up in boxes by region and BPP offices. We had 48 San Jose Flint

Panthers John Bowman and talk with people in front of the Fillmore office, located on Fillmore and Ellis, San Quentin OREGON the corner Yoshi’s later made famous. Santa Ana MINNESOTA Eugene The Black Panther Party newspaper was founded Bobby Seale, Elbert “Big Man” Howard and Vallejo Minneapolis Portland by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1967. The were the early editors. BPP newspaper was created to inform, educate After Huey Newton was shot and jailed in Octo- and organize the people and promote the 10-Point Vol.VIII, No.26 - September 16,1972 COLORADO MISSISSIPPI PENNSYLVANIA Program and Platform. ber 1967, the BPP newspaper grew along with the Black Panther Party. The paper was being sold Denver Cleveland Harrisburg The BPP newspaper grew from a four-page news- not only in the Bay Area but around the world. Philadelphia letter to a full newspaper in about a year and about It came out every Wednesday and was printed in Pittsburgh 500 issues were printed. The first cover featured San Francisco by Howard Quinn Printers. CONNECTICUT MISSOURI the case of Denzil Dowell, a brother murdered by Bridgeport Kansas City The BPP newspaper became the No. 1 Black the Richmond police. The BPP was called in by Hartford TENNESSEE his family to investigate what happened to him. weekly newspaper in the country from 1968- You can read the story in Bobby Seale’s book, 1971, selling over 300,000 copies each week. It New Haven NEBRASKA Chattanooga “.” contained both national and international news. Omaha Memphis DELAWARE Dover NEW JERSEY TEXAS Atlantic City Dallas DISTRICT OF Jersey City Houston COLUMBIA New Brunswick A young Panther sells The Black Panther newspaper. This issue of the paper is elegantly and powerfully designed by Minister of Newark WASHINGTON Culture Emory Douglas, now world renowned. Vol. IV, No.25&26 - May 31,1970 GEORGIA Seattle offices in 30 major cities. Students from SF State Atlanta NEW YORK Black Student Union, UC Berkeley, SF City Col- lege, Merritt and Laney BSUs and a lot of high Albany WISCONSIN school students showed up to work those nights. ILLINOIS Buffalo Milwaukee This photo essay was provided by It’s About Time Chicago Mount Vernon Archives. We have an extensive collection of BPP memorabilia and our mission is to preserve and East St. Louis INTERNATIONAL promote the legacy of the Black Panther Party. For Peoria Bronx BRANCH more information, visit www.itsabouttimebpp. Brooklyn Algiers, Algeria com or, on Facebook, go to itsabouttime/BPP or Rockford Bill Jennings. Corona All photos are from It’s About Time Archive/ INDIANA Harlem BPP Alumni. They were taken by Ducho Dennis, Indianapolis Jamaica Stephen Shames and Jeffery Blankfort. Washington Heights

The front page of the first issue of The Black Panther, A Panther sister sells the paper in a laundromat. Panthers were This article was originally published in the San Francisco Bay View, Peekskill published April 25, 1967 passionate about informing the people. May 4, 2015

Vol. III, No.4 - May 19,1969 PAGE 6 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PAGE 7 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

FORUS Media Claim Cuba Could ShortlyTHE after Washington an- sentencePEOPLE for the murder of New In 2014 following the warming of Extradite Assata Shakur, Despite nounced its normalization of re- Jersey State Trooper Werner Fo- relations between both countries, All Evidence to the Contrary. As- lations with Cuba, state author- erster in 1973,” said Col. Rick the Cuban foreign ministry’s head sata Shakur, the first woman to be ities in New Jersey expressed Fuentes, head of the state’s larg- of North American affairs, Josefina put on the FBI’s most wanted ter- their hope that Havana would est law enforcement agency. Vidal, told the Associated Press rorist list, is falsely claimed to be that “Every nation has sovereign included in a prisoner swap pro- and legitimate rights to grant polit- gram between the U.S. and Cuba. ical asylum to people it considers to have been persecuted.” News outlets in the United States have published speculative reports In March 2015, Cuba’s Deputy Di- over the past couple of days sug- rector for American Affairs, Gus- gesting Cuba is willing to exchange tavo Machin, said such a move is Assata Shakur in a prison swap deal completely “off the table.” Cuba with the U.S. Assata Shakur, for- and the U.S. are currently negotiat- merly called Joanne Chesimard, is a ing a prisoner swap deal as part of Queens-born activist who belonged the normalization of relations but to the . She Shakur’s name has not been men- escaped prison two years after be- tioned and no official source has ing convicted of the alleged murder confirmed the rumors. But despite of state trooper Werner Foerster in this, news outlets like New York 1977 during a gunfight – a crime she Post and NBC news have rushed to has always denied. extradite the former Black Pan- However, the Cuban government suggest the former Black Panther ther to U.S. soil. “We view any has repeatedly refused to extradite will be included in a potential pris- In the mid-1980s, then Cuban oner swap. President Fidel Castro granted her changes in relations with Cuba as the aunt of Tupac Shakur, angering asylum on the island. an opportunity to bring her back U.S. conservatives. Assata Olugbala Shakur to the United States to finish her ALBERT WOODFOX IS FREE! AFTER 45 YEARS For more information visit the Website – Photo collage by Yasmeen Sutton www.angola3.org. U.S. POLITICAL PRISONERS & PRISONERS OF WAR As we commemorate the 50th anni- Panthers, , I Wor Kuen, ald, Herman Bell, Jalil Muntaquin, Ed population from untreated Hepatitis versary of the Black Panther Party of Red Guards, AIM, Brown Berets, the Poindexter, , C, a curable disease. Oakland, Ca., we must confront this Patriots, Peace & Freedom, et al. Oscar Lopez Rivera, Veronza Bowers, government regarding our political Mutulu Shakur, Robert Seth Hayes, Other OGs who joined the ancestors prisoners and prisoners of war that it Among those who braved our strug- Kamau Sadiki, Kojo Bomani Sababu, while still incarcerated (or within denies exist. gle and remain imprisoned at least Richard Mafundi Lake, Maliki Shakur days of their release) include: Mar- 30 years are Leonard Peltier, Jaan Latine. We cannot forget the Africa ilyn Buck, Albert Nuh Washington, The revolutionary Rainbow Coalition, Laamann, and David Gilbert. sisters and brothers or MOVE 9, two Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen we Langa led by BPP Chairman (David Rice), Abdullah Majid, Her- The following captive warriors have of whom died mysteriously in prison, in Chicago, was attacked overtly and confined since 1978. man Wallace, Merle & Phil Africa, covertly. With orders from arch-rac- been incarcerated for 3-5 decades. In , Angel Rodriguez ist FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, fact, one of our longest held jailhouse Prolonged solitary confinement IS Cristobal, , Teddy Jah COINTELPRO (its counterintelli- lawyers is Ruchell Cinque Magee im- torture, and most of our political Heath, George Jackson, Sam Melville, gence program) unleashed the na- prisoned in Ca. since 1963 or 53 years! prisoners have endured years, even Warren Wells, and Richard Williams. tion’s law enforcement agencies with He did 8 years in Angola prior to ’63. decades in such lockups: witness the mandate to neutralize all so-called Hugo Pinell (aka Yogi Bear) who Abolish the prison system and the Our stalwart freedom fighter, Sundiata death penalty! hate groups (even MLK’s organiza- Acoli (Clark Squire) is doing his 43rd was murdered last August in what tion was so described). Thus began the year in prison despite being 79 years we believe was a set up. Demand the release of all political “be alert to have them arrested” cam- old with a clean record (for which the After 30 years of struggle, we got prisoners and prisoners of war NOW! paign resulting in the jailing of anyone recidivism rate is nearly zero). Oth- deemed a member or supporter of Mumia Abu Jamal off Death Row ers include Romaine “Chip” Fitzger- only to see him dying in general June 21, 2016 PAGE 8 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PAGE 9 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION still blows my mind and fills me KUJI Foundation established by with inspiration and pride! Brother Geronimo ji Jaga RIP sev- eral years ago and the Solar Panel ANDRE MOUTON FRED HAMPTON LAW SCHOOL We are happy that the legacy of Project, both of which continue to Andre Mouton born June 1961 in Department to take youth on cross community service and that same benefit many families in Imbaseni The Ultimate Challenge: panthers, Andre Rawls from the Kansas Chap- was when it persuaded then State Senator Harold spirit of volunteerism that we Oakland California and was raised country road trips to historical ter and Yvonne King from the Illinois Chapter. Washington, later to become the first black mayor Village. There is the newly estab- by his grandmother from 3 years black colleges and sites. Many of Study Law in a Black Developing Institution. practiced as members of the Black of Chicago, to lead an effort in the legislature to lished Rainwater Catchment proj- old to 12 years old in West Oakland his students never traveled outside Sometime after Charles left the Party in 1969, he en- Panther Party have never faded! ect, collaboration between UAACC If you have a desire and tenacity to learn law, the obtain funds to pay lawyers to represent 17 black California. Mouton went to Durant the Bay Area and now were giv- rolled in law school at North Carolina Central, but prisoners who were charged with capital murder The legacy continues in our work and the Cincinnati Pan-Afrikan courage to become a people’s advocate, a com- he completed and earned his doctorate of jurispru- at the United African Alliance elementary on 29th and West, just en the chance to visit Atlanta GA, mitment to serve your community and the vision and conspiracy for the death of three white guards Coalition and the new solar light one black from where he lived on Memphis TN, Birmingham AL, dence (JD) at DePaul University School of Law in killed during a rebellion at Pontiac Prison on July to participate in the development of communi- 30th between Gove and West. Du- Washington DC, Philadelphia PA, Chicago, IL in 1974. There he met and worked with 22, 1978. Harold’s success in obtaining state allo- ty-based institutions, NCBL Community College David Hammond, who embraced Charles’ vision of ran was just one black from the and New York, Harlem, Brook- of Law should be a priority on your agenda. cation for defense lawyers resulted in an unprece- establishing a law school to train people’s advocates dented number of black lawyers in a political case Pink church which was used by lyn, Manhattan, and other sites. in an environment free of racism. in this country. After the first 10 defendants were the to provide the Mouton also was Oakland’s Ran- BPP free breakfast program, Mou- dom Act’s 2003 “Educator of the In 1975, Charles and David incorporated the Fred acquitted of all charges, the state decided not to try ton attended daily before going to Year” and one of the Oakland’s fire Hampton Community College of Law and Inter- the remaining defendants. While an NCBLCCL national Diplomacy. Although Charles nor David student, Yvonne King served as the Coordinator school. In 1973 Mouton moved chiefs drove across country with had ever met Fred, Charles knew of Fred’s love of the Pontiac Brothers defense team and contin- to Palo Alto California where he his twice and accompanied his and for his people and that before deciding to become ued after graduating until the victorious end of the lived at a residence that the BPP mentored his students with him a member of the Black Panther Party, he had in- case. used and housed equipment, bag tended to become a lawyer. Because Fred’s fam- groceries, sickle cell and testing Andre Mouton has received nu- Although the National Conference of Black Law- merous awards and accolades from ily had established a memorial scholarship in his yers Community College of Law closed its doors equipment. Mouton helped out various notable entities including name, they thought the name of the Law School in 1986, we are grateful for Charles Knox’ vision, with the free grocery program and would confuse people who might want to donate his and David Hammond’s sacrifices, and those befriended many Black Panthers a full-unconditional pardon from to the scholarship fund. Consequently, the name who had the courage to study law there to become while living at the residence. Governor Jerry Brown. In 2012 of the Law School was changed to the National people’s advocates. Community Center (UAACC) lo- project at UAACC that was funded Mouton decided to return to col- Conference of Black Lawyers Community Col- cated in Imbaseni Village in the by supporters around the world in Mouton moved back to Oakland lege where he attended the college lege of Law and International Diplomacy (NC- Yvonne King, Field Secretary foothills of Mt Meru in Tanza- just 11 days! California, in 1977 where he have BLCCL); however, the new name did not change Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party the original vision of the institution. nia. The legacy continues in the numerous community outreach There is the recent refurbishment of NCBLCCL enrolled its first class September 13, programs that we have offered our water tanks that was the result 1976. Although the Law School never had the to our communities in Tanza- of a benefit organized by the artist/ resources to obtain accreditation from the Amer- nia and elsewhere as we strive activist Maya Azucena in which ican Bar Association, it did obtain degree-grant- to do what we can to help Heal New York based artists volunteered ing authority from the Illinois Board of Higher Our Communities worldwide. their creativity for that good cause Education, enabling its graduates to receive juris and there is the water pump project doctorate (J.D.) degrees. The Law School’s facul- We offer daily classes for youth in our region that include language; donated by the Betty Shabazz In- ty consisted of black members of the Illinois Bar ternational Charter School in Chi- who taught pro bono as part of their contribution computer skills; art and crafts; cago and we could go on and on to the community. music and music production; This was the Call on a brochure for the National food preparation; video shooting and on with these strong examples Conference of Black Lawyers Community Col- NCBLCCL students, like other black law stu- and editing; building construction of the Pan African spirit that was dents, were members of the Black Law Students lege of Law and International Diplomacy. architecture; yoga and aerobics also a philosophy of the Party! Association, which accepted their request to host and more! All of our classes are Too few people know that there was a black the 10th annual conference, which NCBLCCL It is because of these comrades law school in Chicago, Illinois for 11 years did in 1978. Before the Law School graduated free and taught by instructors of around the world who also believe Mouton and Brother Tim at BPP reunion at Mills College various skill levels but all with (1975 – 1976). And, fewer than that know that its first class in 1980, students under the supervi- in community upliftment and vol- lives ever since. He experience of Alameda and graduated with the same level of enthusiasm to it was the vision of Charles Knox, the Deputy sion of a lawyer established and operated a law unteerism that UAACC continues being an at-risk youth and young two AA degrees and started college Minister of Education for the Iowa Chapter of clinic on Chicago’s south-side. Andre Rawls was serve those in need. to be reflections of that import- adult where he went to Folsom at Cal State University East Bay in the Black Panther Party (Party), with its head- one of those students, and she continued to assist ant Legacy of the Black Panther quarters in Des Moines. This same institution Brother Pete founded the Leaders of State prison 1990, he was released 2015. Mouton graduated from Cal the clinic after she graduated. Another example Party…Community Service!! trained and graduated in its first class two black of NCBLCCL’s contribution to the community Tomorrow Children’s Home more in 1992, that is where he changed State East Bay with a BA in Polit- his life. Mouton started a mento- ical Science with a Pre-law option than five years ago to address the A Luta Continua!! All Power to ring program at Castlemont High and is now in graduate school in needs of both orphans and those liv- the People!! ing in challenging family situations school in East Oakland, working Cal State East Bay’s Public Ad- and we are presently raising 22 chil- Pete O’Neal, Chairman of the as a Senior Mentor and supervi- ministration Program. His college dren and meeting all their needs in an Kansas City Chapter BP and sor. His program worked with the cumulative grade point average is BPP COMMUNITY SERVICE atmosphere of love and community. Founder/Director UAACC Char- schools most at-risk youth most 3.6 and has been on the Dean’s list lotte Hill O’Neal aka Mama whose grade point average was and recently received a scholarship Then of course there are the water C, Kansas City Chapter BPP below 1.0. Students who partici- from the Graduate Fellowship Eq- ALIVE AND WELL AT UAACC IN TANZANIA projects, one that was a collabora- and Director UAACC. pated in Mouton’s program grades uity Program. tive effort between UAACC and www.uaacc.habari.co.tz increased to 3.0 and higher after It is such a blessing to have been able many children were not getting ad- just a couple of semesters. Mou- Mr. Mouton is still working in the to live a life of service since we left equate food; many people needed ton founded his program S.A.F.E. community advocating for youth Kansas City in 1970! We love to em- to be educated about the rest of the (Student Advocate For Education) rights, also fighting against po- phasize the fact that the Black Panther world; many families needed means where he started an after school lice brutality and unjust murders, Party was based on a legacy of com- to visit their incarcerated loved ones; program for homeless students he also is helping currently with munity service and volunteerism. many people needed basic health at Castlemont and identified over coordinating the Black Panther’s care and basic education…the needs 100 youth who did not have an 50th Anniversary’s youth 3 on 3 The BPP began in response to the po- list went on and on, and we as young tournament at Moss Wood Park in lice brutality that was running rampant adequate place to live. He raised people strived to meet those needs money to pay for their cloths, food, Oakland California working with in the Oakland community. Teaching in Black Panther Party Chapters in Timothy Thompson one of the people about their rights under the law and transportation and provided a many cities across America. The solid foundation for many students Black Panthers who he knew when back then was definitely a strong ser- fact that we were all mostly young, he was a kid. vice and standing up for self defense who did not have a stable place to sometimes even teenagers, but had live. was also a service! the fortitude to volunteer to do what But then, it was observed that this we could to change things for the Andre Mouton started raising service could be taken to another better in countless neighborhoods thousands of dollars every year level when it became apparent that and mostly in adverse situations, working with the Oakland Fire PAGE 10 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PAGE 11 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

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1. SISTER NAOMI FORMER STUDENT AT OCS AND 4. TARIKA LEWIS, SISTER CHARLOTTE O’ NEIL 8. PANTHER CUBS FROM PHILLY MARCUS SCHELL 12. GLENN AND PAM LOMAX 16. ROLAND FREEMEN WITH NY PANTHERS 21. SISTERS OF THE BPP TOGETHER IN KANSAS CITY LEAD ORGANIZER OF THE OSC REUNIONS 5. UC PEPPERDINE STUDENT ON BPP HISTORY AND JONATHAN COX 13. SISTER AYANNA OF HOUSTON (RIP) 17. DALLAS PANTHERS, WITH 22. SAFIYA BURHARI AND MALIK 2. ROBERT, ALBERT WOODFOX, MALIK RAHEEM TOUR OF OAKLAND 9. JAMES (BUBBA) YOUNG AND KIILU 14 R. FREEMEN, WAYNE PHARR 18. BILLY X JENNINGS 23. WILLIAM JOHNSON AND CYRIL INNIS POINTING 3. EMORY DOUGLAS 6. MS. RUTH JONES OLDEST PANTHER 106 (RIP) 10. OREGON PANTHERS PERCY AND JEFF FORD 15. VANETTA (NETTA) MOLSON SEATTLE AND OAK- 19. EMORY, ALI BEY, SMITTY, MARIAN @ THE OUT THEIR OFFICE. 7. ATTICA ROBINSON 11. COMRADES AT BOBBY HUTTON DAY IN OAK- LAND PANTHER 40TH IN OAKLAND 24. SISTER CHARLOTTE AND ETHEL PARIS LAND 1998 20. STEVE MC, EDDIE CONWAY,BILLY X AND JR PAGE 13 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PAGE 12 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

‘Free Mondo, Ed’ banner Nebraska State Capitol steps, March 13, 2012 by Mary Ellen Kennedy WOPASHITWE MONDO EYEN WE LANGA A REAL

PANTHER! We Langa with Senator Chambers in the background. Robert Paskach / Omaha World-Herald ! Mondo developed emphysema was a regular contributor for The the deference shown to him each during his time in the cage and Omaha Star, The San Francisco time I visited. Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen we joined the ancestors on March 11, BayView, and other newspapers. Langa wished to have his ashes 2016, after six months in the Ne- He did a stint as a paid columnist Mondo loved African people. released in Africa. That wish was braska State Penitentiary infirma- for the Lincoln Journal Star News- As part of their work for the granted just a few days after what ry. When Mondo was first hospi- paper during his incarceration. In National Committee to Com- would have been his 69th birth- talized, supporters redoubled our 1992, a piece of his writing was bat Fascism, Ed and Mondo day. Mondo’s ashes were secured efforts to get him released from featured in the booklet of Nebraska collaborated with several in a backpack and shepherded to prison. We asked that he seek med- authors published for the 125th an- organizations on politics, fair the summit of Mount Kilimanja- ical release due to the gravity of his niversary of Nebraska’s statehood. housing, and discrimination in the ro, in Tanzania, the highest point situation. He refused, insisting that His poem, “Great Bateleur,” was schools. They exposed slumlords, since he was innocent of the crime featured in “: By Any protested police brutality, and the for which he was convicted, he did Means Necessary by Walter Dean Vietnam War. They ran tutoring not want to be released if it meant Myers. He has contributed materi- programs and feeding programs for anything less than an exoneration al to scholarly publications as well. children. In short, they worked to by the state of Nebraska. Youth theatre groups in Nebraska improve their surroundings. have performed Mondo’s plays; In the cage, despite his surround- When doctors gave Mondo only a a New York group performed his few weeks to live, he relented, but ings and the inhumanity of his play, “Different Dances.” He was condition, Mondo maintained his it was not to be. All efforts were ig- an early member of the Harambee nored or turned down by Nebraska strength, his dignity, his sense of Afrikan Cultural Organization in- humor, and his hope. It is with state officials. Over the years, ex- side the penitentiary. culpatory evidence – evidence of that same hope for the future of government violations of constitu- Mondo served as a mentor to young our people, our children, that Pete tional rights, prosecutorial miscon- men new to the prison. “Some of O’Neal, a Black Panther in exile, duct, perjury, and suppressed evi- the younger ones in here listen to who once led the Black Panther dence surfaced and is irrefutable me because I treat them with re- Party in Kansas City, and Charlotte and yet it has been ignored by the spect,” Mondo said. The respect planted an avocado tree in their in the Motherland. He is where he courts on appeal and the Nebraska shown to Mondo came not only Tanzania ‘Garden of Memories’ to wished to be on the continent he Board of Pardons. from inmates, but from guards and memorialize the fact that Mondo is loved. Mondo’s friends, Pete and prison officials as well. I witnessed free and has joined the ancestors. Charlotte O’Neal, who live in Tan- Comrade Mondo’s spirit lives on zania made it happen. through his words and deeds. He protected his inner freedom and Mondo and Ed Poindexter were continued the struggle in prison leaders in Omaha, Nebraska’s as an author, a painter, playwright, chapter of the Black Panther Par- and sculptor. He was a prolific ty. They were snared in the FBI’s writer and poet. His works have COINTELPRO trap, framed for appeared in more than forty mag- murder, and in 1971, sentenced azines and literary publications. to life in prison in the death of In 1994, Mondo compiled several an Omaha police officer. Ed and of his writings in “A View from Mondo spent 45 years in prison Taney’s Place.” cells as the “Omaha Two,” Ne- braska’s two political prisoners. In 2012, he released the second edi- Now there is one and the fight for tion of his poetry anthology, “The exoneration continues. Black Panther Is An African Cat,” Map Design by Allen Kimuchi his seventh work of poetry. Mondo PAGE 14 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PAGE 15 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION supremacy is an illusion. The issue as we understood it was poverty and cultural genocide due to the illusion THE COMMEMORATOR of so many people about race. Poverty included black cultur- COMMEMORATOR newspaper weekend of the 22nd of August, also highlighting the Unity Rally fore, CCBPP attempted to contin- al exploitation and oppression in promoting the Black Panther Party 1990 Commemoration Unity Ral- and using the paper to build and ue with the legacy of the BPP in the black neighborhoods in most Legacy, Goals and Principles were ly; one year after Huey’s assassina- further the idea of the party serving a new thrust and of course with a inner cities as the BPP had cor- produced by The Commemoration tion. We memorialize Dr. Newton the community — all which made special focus on the Black com- rectly put forth throughout the late Committee For The Black Panther transition and celebrated his life toward telling the real of the Party munity and all oppressed people; 60s and throughout the 70s up to Party (CCBPP) which I wrote the as a comrade and revolutionary and that is what we did, started with the youth of the day as the most 1982; at which point we ended the Statement of Purpose that is print- leader, i.e. a martyr who believes the campaign to free Geronimo; historic exploited and oppressed former BPP with a press confer- ed in each edition. in a cause so strongly that was pre- (Huey and G made amend before demographers in the country with ence and Huey P. Newton was pared to die for that Cause of hu- Huey’s death.). We recognized the the understanding that we could present in mid 1982. We under- COMMEMORATOR’s main ob- man rights. lies of the corporate media not repeat or duplicate the jective is to take a principle stand stood that even though we had to were tremendous. party legacy and end the BPP as a Party, we still had for the BPP legacy and goal: All The Commemoration Unity Rally history per se. Power To all the exploited and op- held August 22, 1990 at Bobby not ended the genocidal exploita- pressed people of the world due to Hutton Park (Defermery) in West tion and oppression. the fact we believe we understood Oakland. The event was report- The COMMEMORATOR news- the gist of the conditions the world, ed in the first COMMEM- paper dovetailed the BPP with especially with Black people and ORATOR as a “resounding CCBPP STATEMENT OF PUR- African history, face. success”. (see photo from POSE & BPP 10 Point Program Vol 1 No # 1 COMMEMO- published in each edition: with The start up of The Commemora- RATOR newspaper) tion Committee for the Black Pan- writings, articles and comments ther Party (CCBPP) that sponsored The paper was the results from from former members including the Commemorator newspaper my suggestion after discussing founder and former chair Bobby For There Seale and as well was a series of phenomenal event. the matter with former members certain, After the August 22, 1989 tragic and comrades at one of our gather- was a need for as interview with David Hilliard, The COM- new tactics and Mumia Abu Jamal, and numerous death of Black Panther co-founder ings; because at the time I among MEMORATOR in the east bay, Dr. Huey P. Newton comrades thought it was critical methodology. former supporters such as Dr. Tol- newspaper emerged bert Small, who was very instru- in West, North Oakland and South to published a paper some of the out of the Commemoration With this understanding Berkeley legendary Black neigh- former BPP members, including mental in providing the first Party Unity Rally at the behest of our that the party had been under- health clinic, and led the campaign borhoods where numerous party Ralph, Jimmy, Bobby, and Steve beloved leader who we continued mined by the white racist and dom- programs had been spearheaded who I was in touch with earlier on to address the issue of Sickle Cell to respect who had fallen, Dr. Huey inent institutions, through the Anemia, and the myriad of health and lived, including myself. immediately after Huey’s murder; Newton, who was at the time de- FBI-COINTELPRO operation, es- a few of those comrades had stated issues Black people face to this The BPP officially ended the BPP nounced by many in and out of the pecially with the corporate media day; and former (Ralph actually lay out and edited BPP largely due to the capitalist me- and the criminal unjust system, law at a press conference in 1982 five the first two issues). But earlier Ramona Africa, and current po- years after Huey Newton’s return dia propaganda. The first edition of enforcement and the courts in co- litical prisoner in exile in Cuba, on I had met with Jonina Abram, the COMMEMORATOR: we pub- hoot. Understanding that our best from Cuba and was assassinated a former BPP central committee Assata Shakur, Geronimo ji-Jaga, five years later in late August 1989. lished and circulated some 5,000 way to be relevant to the people up until his release. (The Com- member and the last BPP editor editions in November of 1990 large- community in particular but to be who had agreed to write and edit memorator started up petitions Former BPP members and myself ly in Oakland and the Bay area but relevant in general to all oppressed to release both for Geronimo and included comrades, Ralph Moore, but was only interested in pub- also mailed out about 1,000 copies. and exploited communities, we lishing a single edition; and it just Mumia Abu Jamal. We gave up- Bobby McCall, Jimmy Slater, and The very first edition was printed by had to address the day-to-day con- dates and wrote published articles Steve McCutchen. And lastly a took too for us to materialize – Our Alonzo’s (in San Bruno, San Mateo ditions/issues of poverty of the day agenda was to get out on the streets including Eddy Conway, Ramona sister from Sacramento, Harriet county) the BPP former and a long- as well as relate the current to keep Africa & MOVE organization, the Strickland, a friend of both Huey to 1) cover the voices and messag- time supporter. We also contacted the people abreast of our struggle: es from the Commemoration Unity New York 3, Robert King and the and Melvin Huey’s brother before Emory Douglas, who was working “We” and “them.” Angola Three. Huey was assassinated. Harriet Rally that CCBPP event. So I lob- at Sun Press, owned by Dr. Goodlett. “We” the exploited and the ex- owned some organizing skill: she bied comrades and volunteers with Emory Douglas hooked us up with At our Commemoration Unity ploited and oppressed and ’They” could write and she could articu- CCBPP that we should produce an The Sun Press, owed by Dr. Goodlett Rally the Rev. Cecil Williams “Them,” the ruling elite, made up late BPP like the party, and what ongoing paper for our committee and we got our second edition from Glide Memorial Church of the few, or the less than 1% as is it stood for. Harriet had helped to come out regularly; so we could up until he closed his print- was a special feature speaker called today. As we understood the initially with the tell our local community stories ing operations at which alone with BPP co-founder Bob- issue: people needed to come to organizing of the and informing the time we found Herburg- by Seale; and with Zulu Spear terms with the facts, that corporate Commemoration community er Publication in Sac- from and Ala Baba monopoly capitalism is running Unity Rally that ramento county. a local funk band. We had many amuck, out to enslave and murder had been held local people who spoke with favor us to do us our community harm. with the While we call the and wanted to performed; the spir- That Blacks were continually be- paper the COMMEM- it was tense and high throughout ing pimped every step of the way ORATOR to help sum they commemorative event which by a parasitical system made up of up the party’s history and lasted from midday noon through the dominant white and racist in- legacy with input from the late evening. two months later stitutions and Wall Street - the cap- various former party the first edition of the Commemo- italist establishment. members, supporters and rator hit the street and it covered friends oaf the party CCBPP started with an understand- the Unity Rally on the front page. because we understood ing that we had to promote solidar- Wilson Riles Jr. was running for that the struggle con- ity among all people, (not neces- mayor of Oakland and he donat- tinue; and that former sary integration or segregation as a ed to helped to fray the cost of the supporters also local strategy, but solidarity with human printing. organizations who rights). Race was not the material provided support and basis of our issue; but econom- In Solidarity & Struggle. input to move the ics and social conditions are real; - Melvin Dickson FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.POLICY.M4BL.ORG party forward. There- for race is not real, because white PAGE 16 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PAGE 17 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION CONFERENCE SCHEDULE REFLECTIONS ON TIME BLACK PANTHER PARTY 50TH ANNIVERSARY OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA SPENT IN THE BLACK SEE PRINTED PROGRAM FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS. PANTHER PARTY GREGORY THURSDAY, 10.20 FRIDAY, 10.21 Continued James Moore Theatre Learning Center 11am – 3pm 11am – 1pm B. LEWIS TECH SUMMIT MASTERING FILM SCREENING TECHNOLOGY FOR SELF TBA DETERMINATION STEVE D. (LIL’ MASAI ) McCUTCHEN I was born into the organization on Jan. 9, 1pm – 3pm 1970. I was a student, brother and son to 3pm – 5pm THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY I joined the Black Panther Party in Bal- recognized then by the BPP still exist and the teachers and mentors who guided my THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND POPULAR MUSIC timore, Maryland in November, 1968 the needs of black and poor still exist and early development. I learned the value of SCHOOL 3pm – 5pm during its early organizing period. At first have actually increased since the with- self-worth. That we were intelligent, beau- Lecture Hall VANGUARD STUDENT PARTY my concerns were to avoid the Vietnam ering away of the BPP. Those programs tiful, and could accomplish anything we set 11am – 1pm war, until I began to understand the larger and visions are still needed and more, as our minds to. The most important lesson THE YOUNG LORDS California Room vision and depth of the BPP through the are more efforts to educate, organize and was that we are all of that because we are 11am – 1pm 1pm – 3pm CHICANO BLACK BERETS 10-Point Program and Platform. For me, mobilize people as to how to define and Black - not “in spite of.” This early foun- PANTHERS LIVING that was a leap of faith and a raising of act on the conditions which continue to dation was seminal in my development and EXILED IN AFRICA 1pm – 3pm social and political awareness. create divisions and inequalities between remains the centering piece of my life. THE SEATTLE CHAPTER those with a vested interest in America 3pm – 5pm First Black Panther Party Chapter As a member of the BPP from 1968 until I enjoyed exercise/sports the most while in THE GENIUS AND LEGACY OF Outside of California and those who are still disenfranchised, HUEY P. NEWTON 1979, organizational skills and the ability voiceless and powerless. the BPP. We swam, ran and played ball any 3pm – 5pm to translate those skills and understand- chance we could. Learning Center ZAPANTERA NEGRA ing as to involving community people The 50th Black Panther Party Anniversa- 11am – 1pm were prominent among some of the skills ry and Celebration is a reminder that the FILM SCREENING TBA SATURDAY, 10.22 I acquired. During that period, I acquired conditions, attitudes and actions which graphic arts/ layout skills, lithography/ black and poor people have endured have 1pm – 3pm James Moore Theatre printing press skills, office management not qualitatively improved, and that unless MARXISM AND 11am – 1pm skills, and I had the opportunity to teach there is change that improves the quality of THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY LIBERATION THEOLOGY THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY in academic and recreational class set- life for the masses of people, there will be 3pm – 5pm & THE CHURCH tings while assigned to the Oakland Com- dissent, protest, and actions to transform MARTIAL ARTS AS A TOOL FOR munity School and to Oakland Commu- this society into a more humane place. This SOCIAL CHANGE 1pm – 3pm THE REAL RAINBOW COALI- nity Learning Center as martial arts pro- anniversary means that the work of the BPP California Room TION/ BLACK, RED, WHITE, gram instructor and director. was left unfinished, and that others must 11am – 1pm BROWN REVOLUTIONARIES continue to address issues that hopefully GROWING UP PANTHER The areas of responsibility or work as- will lead to a day when all people can come Fred Hampton Jr. on Police Murders 3pm – 5pm of Black Panthers THE FBI’s “BLACK HATE signed to me included but were not lim- together and stand as one, without need, on ited to newspaper sales, community GROUP” COINTELPRO’S common ground. 1pm – 3pm The Murder of Malcolm X, the Black canvassing, preparing the BPP news for BLACKS AND JEWS Panther Party and the Nation of Islam weekly distribution at Central Headquar- All Power to the People ters in Oakland, dormitory assignments I also enjoyed performing in plays and con- 3pm – 5pm Lecture Hall Steve D. McCutchen / aka Lil’ Masai, BPP George Jackson Sun of Palestine 11am – 1pm for the children of the Oakland Commu- certs. My “first love” was a trumpet that I THE AMERICAN nity School, maintenance as- started playing in James Mott’s music class. INDIAN MOVEMENT signments at various BPP fa- I also enjoyed the dorm lifestyle we had. FRIDAY, 10.21 cilities, and participation along We were given responsibilities early on in 1pm – 3pm James Moore Theatre with other comrades in week- life, and I appreciated the faith and trust our 11am – 1pm ly political education classes. parents and leaders had in us. WOMEN OF THE INTERNATION- 3pm – 5pm I also wrote a weekly-martial AL SECTION OF THE BLACK POOR AND WORKING arts column for the BPP news As I approach my 47th Birthday, it means PANTHER PARTY CLASS WHITES WITH that the foundation of my very being re- BLACK PANTHERS and briefly wrote sports articles 1pm – 3pm The Coalition of the Young Patriot for our newspaper as well. Like mains relevant. That the deeply funda- 180 YEARS OF INCARCERATION Party & The Black Panther Party all members of the BPP I was mental truths our parents, mentors, com- 3pm – 5pm Learning Center available for assignments and rades, teachers provided us with remain relevant today. When we were young we SELF-DEFENSE AGAINST 11am – 1pm work 24/7. POLICE BRUTALITY and THE 1968 TRIAL OF were taught to acknowledge our Brothers MURDERS of BLACK and HUEY P. NEWTON The Black Panther Party first, and Sisters with a head nod, handshake, OPPRESSED PEOPLE is the only black revolutionary or fist pump. Today far too often, we look 1pm – 3pm political organization to exist Lecture Hall EDUCATE TO LIBERATE away, even as young Brothers & Sisters 11am – 1pm inside the United States. The are murdered in the streets. THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY 3pm – 5pm 10-point program and platform NEWSPAPER GREEN ROOM which brought the community We were taught to remain United and 1pm – 3pm California Room survival programs to black peo- the 50th Anniversary represents our sus- tained Unity. THE BROWN BERETS: 11am – 1pm ple and poor communities, and STRUGGLE FOR CHICANO/A THE INTELLECTUAL LEGACY POWER OF THE BLACK PANTHERS to the attention of America were The power of the BPP provides stark con- the first of its kind. The BPP trast to the tenor of politics and contin- 3pm – 5pm 1pm – 3pm addressed the needs and inter- ued inequities within our criminal justice SPECIAL THANKS THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY HEARTS of the HOMIEZ ests of black and poor people, system. The 50th means that we have v. THE UNITED STATES OF #OPEN—Our People Effecting It’s About Time Committee Clark Bailey AMERICA Neighborhoods Program and reached across ethnic bar- more work to do, while also providing a riers as no other organization Gail Shaw Billy X Jennings reminder of the relevance and Power of 3pm – 5pm Boko Freemen Emory Douglas had done before or since. The our movement. THE LEGACY OF issues, problems and questions Yvonne King Elbert “Big Man” Howard GEORGE JACKSON Gregory B. Lewis Barbara Cox Stacy Asher Yasmeen Sutton Aaron Sutherlen TH PAGE 18 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PAGE 19 THE BLACK PANTHER, 50 ANNIVERSARY EDITION

October 1966 3. We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our black community. We believe that this racist government has robbed us, and now we are demand- ing the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules Black Panther Party were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed Platform and Program to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black WHAT WE WANT people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make. 4. We want decent housing fit for the shelter of human beings.

We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing WHAT WE BELIEVE to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.

5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society.

We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- OCTOBER 7 – OCTOBER 29TH, 2016 edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position OPENING RECEPTION, OCTOBER 7, 6 - 9PM in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else. LA PENA CULTURAL CENTER OCTOBER 22 – FEBRUARY 28TH, 2017 JOYCE GORDON GALLERY 3105 SHATTUCK, AVE. BERKLEY, CA OPENING RECEPTION & BOOK SIGNING, 406 14TH ST. OAKLAND, CA 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. LAPENA.ORG OCTOBER 22, 3 - 6PM WWW.JOYCEGORDONGALLERY.COM AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM & LIBRARY AT OAKLAND We believe that black people should not be forced to fight in the military 659 14TH ST. OAKLAND, CA service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/REVOLUTIONARYGRAIN fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist mil- itary, by whatever means necessary.

7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people.

We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by organiz- ing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black com- munity from racist police oppression and brutality. The second amendment to the constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We there- fore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self- defense. ART AND ARCHIVE EXHIBIT SEPT 29TH- OCT 16, 2016 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and LA PENA CULTURAL CENTER city prisons and jails. 3105 SHATTUCK, AVE. BERKLEY, CA LAPENA.ORG We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial.

9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the constitution of the United States.

We believe that the courts should follow the united states constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The fourteenth amendment of the U.S. DIMENSIONS DANCE.ORG DIMENSIONS [email protected] Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a per- son from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being, tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the black community. BOBBY HUTTON DAY OCTOBER 23, 2016 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. MEMORIAL DEDICATION CEREMONY MC – EMORY DOUGLAS When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dis- REPRESENTATIVES – HUTTON FAMILY, CARIBBEAN solve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, ALL-STARS, SISTER CHARLOTTE O’NEAL (MAMA C), KUJEAHCHAGULAR, TARIKA LEWIS, PROSPERITY among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of MOVEMENT, VUKANI MAWETHU, SAMBA DANCERS nature and nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind AND DRUMMERS, DJ CUBA requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Huey P. Newton Minister of Defense We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that Black Panther Party they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just black community. powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of EXHIBITION OF REVOLUTION TIMES: government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the peo- GRAPHIC DESIGN OF THE 60’S AND 70’S We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to determine ple to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its UNDERGROUND PRESS our destiny. foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, FROM THE ARCHIVE OF BILLY X JENNINGS – HISTORIAN FOR THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY. as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. 2. We want full employment for our people. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not OCTOBER 20TH, 2016 - DECEMBER 1ST, 2017 ILKA HARTMAN PHOTOS ON EXHIBIT We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience FEB 2012 - ONGOING GALLERY TALK & PANEL DISCUSSION, NOVEMBER 3, 2016 hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suf- SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY / DESIGN GALLERY every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the white A FREE CELEBRATION OF OAKLAND LIFE THROUGH ALEMEDA COUNTY COURT HOUSE / ferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are FINE ARTS BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO, CA American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of HIP HOP,AND LEGACY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY WITKIN LAW LIBRARY accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the commu- OCTOBER 8TH 10AM-7PM 125 12TH ST, OAKLAND, CA WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/THEREVOLUTIONTIMES invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under abso- nity so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its DEFREMERY PARK (BOBBY HUTTON PARK) ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE MUSEUM AND WWW.REVOLUTIONTIMES.ORG lute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- people and give a high standard of living. 1651 ADELINE ST, OAKLAND COURTHOUSE ON THE CORNER. ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ALAMEDACOUNTYLAWLIB The “Revolutionary Spirit of Comrade Mondo Lives On” © 2016 Graphic Design Emory Douglas WOPASHITWE MONDO EYEN WE LANGA Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen we Langa wished to have his ashes released in Africa. That wish was granted just a few days after what would have been his 69th birthday. Mondo’s ashes were secured in a backpack and shepherded to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, the highest point in the Motherland. He is where he wished to be on the continent he loved. Mondo’s friends, Pete and Charlotte O’Neal, who live in Tanzania made it happen.

Mondo and Ed Poindexter were leaders in Omaha’s, Nebraska Chapter of the Black Panther Party. They were snared in the FBI’s COINTELPRO trap, framed for murder, and in 1971, sentenced to life in prison in the death of an Omaha police officer. Ed and Mondo spent 45 years in prison cells as the “Omaha Two,” Nebraska’s two political prisoners. Now there is one and the fight for exoneration continues. – Linda Kennedy