first edition
1970 · San Francisco, California
by Huey Newton, Bobby Seale
THE BLACK PANTHER Black Community News Service Vol. V, No. 20, Saturday, November 14, 1970 Published by The Black Panther Party Ministry of Information, San Francisco, California. First edition, first printing. Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale.
Newspaper format, 17.5" x 11.5" folded as issued, 20 pages, printed on newsprint in pink and black ink, illustrated throughout with historic b&w photographs, portraits and Black Power graphics, the rear cover has an intense image by revolutionary Black Panther artist Emory Douglas (b. 1943). VERY GOOD CONDITION: the front cover has a neatly penned phone number in the fore-edge margin, light wear to the horizontal fold, and a small tear at the bottom spine fold, the pages have some light age toning, and light edgewear, otherwise solid, bright, clean, unmarked and the iconic Emory graphic on the rear cover remains very bright. An important and hard to find cultural artifact.
Emblematic of the Black Power Movement, The Black Panther is a visually iconic provocative weekly newspaper that politically engaged readers with BPP ideology, current events, and issues facing Black Americans that were central to the party's Ten Point Platform and Program, spotlighting abuse and killing by police, incarceration, the right to self-defense, inequalities of the justice system, and solidarity with social justice organizations and international human rights movements. (Inventory #: 2020)
Newspaper format, 17.5" x 11.5" folded as issued, 20 pages, printed on newsprint in pink and black ink, illustrated throughout with historic b&w photographs, portraits and Black Power graphics, the rear cover has an intense image by revolutionary Black Panther artist Emory Douglas (b. 1943). VERY GOOD CONDITION: the front cover has a neatly penned phone number in the fore-edge margin, light wear to the horizontal fold, and a small tear at the bottom spine fold, the pages have some light age toning, and light edgewear, otherwise solid, bright, clean, unmarked and the iconic Emory graphic on the rear cover remains very bright. An important and hard to find cultural artifact.
Emblematic of the Black Power Movement, The Black Panther is a visually iconic provocative weekly newspaper that politically engaged readers with BPP ideology, current events, and issues facing Black Americans that were central to the party's Ten Point Platform and Program, spotlighting abuse and killing by police, incarceration, the right to self-defense, inequalities of the justice system, and solidarity with social justice organizations and international human rights movements. (Inventory #: 2020)
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