Black Panther Party

  • A visit with Huey Newton at Vacaville Prison Facility

    Black Panther Party co-founder and leader Huey P. Newton discusses his imprisonment at Vacaville Medical Facility in Vacaville, CA with Denny Smithson of KPFA’s Public Affairs Department; Karen Wald, reporter for the Guardian; and Joe Blum, editor of The Movement. Newton talks about the way he’s been portrayed in the media and physical and social…

  • An interview with Huey Newton

    Huey Newton, interviewed by Alex Hoffman, KPFA reporter. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, discusses discrimination and abuse during his imprisonment, his impending trial, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and the Vietnam War. Newton notes that most of the black inmates in jail with him have become Black Panthers since his incarceration. Interview…

  • Bobby Seale on Attica / interviewed by Deloris Costello.

    Chairman of the Black Panther Party discusses his role in the Attica situation.

  • Are the Black Panthers violent? / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson.

    Bobby Seale, Bob Avakian, and Michael Parker discuss the political activities of the Black Panthers.|ARE THE BLACK PANTHERS VIOLENT? / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson. – Panel discussion of the alliance between the Black Panthers and the Peace & Freedom Party. Participants are Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panther Party, and Bob Avakian and…

  • Huey Newton From Jail in Oakland, CA interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Elsa Knight Thompson interviews Huey Newton from jail in Oakland, California. They talk about Newton’s imprisonment.

  • Are the Black Panthers violent?

    Elsa Knight Thompson moderates a panel discussion about the alliance between the Black Panthers and the Peace & Freedom Party. Participants are Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panther Party, and Bob Avakian and Mike Parker, two organizers of the Peace & Freedom Party. Seale clarifies that the Panthers are not an anti-white organization but…

  • Free Huey rally in Oakland

    H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin) and Stokely Carmichael deliver speeches at a Free Huey rally on February 17, 1968, held at the Oakland Auditorium. Stokely Carmichael opens his speech, suggesting a celebration of Huey P. Newton’s birthday not “as Huey Newton the individual, but as Huey Newton, part and parcel of Black people wherever we…

  • Intercommunal day of solidarity

    On March 5, 1971, the Black Panther Party held an event at the Oakland Auditorium called “Revolutionary International Day of Solidarity” for Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins, Angela Davis, and Ruchell Magee, and also to honor Party Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton on his release from prison. Huey P. Newton was the featured speaker. This…

  • We can change the world / produced by Laurie Garrett.

    On the student protest movement which followed the invasion of Cambodia: the Kent State and Jackson State riots, the Black Panthers, Berkeley. Includes actuality.

  • Kwame Ture Remembered

    (55 Minutes) Kwame Ture Remmebered From Freedom Rider to SNCC Chariman, Black Panther to Pan-Africanist leader. Close friends remember the life and legacy of a true revolutionary: the man formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, buried this weekend in Africa. GUEST: Cleveland Sellers, Assoc. Dir. of African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. GUEST:…