The Pink Panther

Ice. The macho mythos of the party often obscures, now as it did then, the complexity of the party’s official stance on gender politics and the serious nature of its dialogue with and engagement in issues of gender parity. The facts that the Black Panther Party was the first, and for many years the only, national African American organization to speak out in favor of gay rights or to make open alliances with a homosexual rights group, and that the organization had many women in positions of…

These factors compare to the demise of the Black Panther Party and other radical African American organizations in the 1960 's and 1970 's in that the "major danger and worst enemy of the urban guerilla is infiltration into the organization by a spy or informer", which led to uneasiness and the destruction…

Emory Douglas’s pieces titled Afro-American Solidarity with the Oppressed and Panther Sisters on Women’s Liberation are two pieces that show Douglas’s revolutionary art that were powerful symbols of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 to protect minority communities against the United States government. The BPP also used community based programs and mass organization to start revolutionary socialism. Both…

Black Power activists believed that action was more powerful than discussion. The Sir George Williams Affair and scenes of mass demonstrations charged a new philosophy. This sense of urgency for “real” change empowered organizations like the Black Panther Party and the FLQ, validating Ture’s message of revolutionary…

rather than a position of weakness” (quoted in Ladner 1967, p. 8). During this period, many groups developed such as the Black Panther Party, created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, respectively. According to PBS’s article, This Far by Faith, a document explaining the history of black violence, a section dedicated to the Black Panther Party states, “the Black Panthers authorize the use of violence as self-defense. The first point of their founding 10-Point Platform reads: ‘We want…

“I remember being young in the 1960’s.. we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. The being able to dream and to change the world”(Bernardo Bertolucci).Young people, in the 1950’s and the 1960’s, were playing a new role in society by being very active and attentive in what was going on in the world. They were building and supporting their own opinions, or sometimes their parent 's opinions. New ideas and new accusations against opposing…

Klan in Mississippi (Smith, 2014). Other more militant organizations, such as the Black Panther Party, also formed. The Panthers advocated for self-defense of African-American communities and political opposition to the U.S. government by “any means necessary.” In fact, the party’s original name was the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Despite the generally negative perceptions surrounding the Black Panthers, the organization brought attention to police brutality and established community…

Tupac “2Pac” Shakur- Change September 7, 1996 will go down in the history books for many people. On the eve of that day, Tupac“2Pac” Shakur, who was sitting in a passenger seat, got shot in a drive by. 2Pac got rushed to the hospital and six days later, he died. He was known for his rap music which he sang about poor black African Americans going through their tough life, living in the hood. In this paper, I will discuss 2Pac’s song Change, which was recorded in 1992 but was remixed and…

Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party has become a symbol of empowerment for people all around the world. The group started out as one local chapter but soon became a force to be reckoned with. It was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 in Oakland, California (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia). This was during a time when civil rights activists and African American communities were frustrated with the lack of progress that was occurring in desegregating public places. The…

Though the Black Panther Party had experienced its most influential years in San Francisco and Oakland between 1967 and 1972, a lack of census data from non-decennial from NHGIS narrowed my quantitative GIS analysis solely to 1970. Despite this small window of information, the metadata I had applied as layers within ArcMap had provided me with a surprising amount of insight to the racial and economic landscape of Panther activities at the height of their potency as well as at the height of…