The topic for the February meeting will be the Black Panther Party of the USA: Their aims and beliefs, their organisation, programmes and campaigns, and both their history and legacy are all up for discussion.
So any books, articles and documentaries by and on the Black Panther Party, their members and fellow travellers; Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Elaine Brown, Assata Shakur, Stokely Carmichael, Kathleen Cleaver, Eldridge Cleaver, David Hilliard, Angela Davis, George Jackson.
As usual we’ll meet at Ellen and Phyll’s house, at 1PM – this month on the last Saturday of the month (29th Feb) to give us time to get the reading done.
Contemporaneous Histories of the Panthers:
Stokely Carmichael, & Charles V. Hamilton Black Power. The Politics of Liberation in America 1967
Stokely Carmichael Stokely Speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism 1971
Philip S. Foner (ed) The Black Panthers Speak – The Manifesto of the Party: The First Complete Documentary Record of the Panther’s Program 1970
George Jackson Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson 1970
Gene Marine The Black Panther Party 1970
Huey P. Newton, with J. Herman Blake Revolutionary Suicide 1973
Huey P. Newton War Against the Panthers 1980
Bobby Seale Seize the Time: the Black Panther Party and Huey Newton 1970
Agnes Varda (dir) Black Panthers 1968
Collected political writings and documents of the Panthers:
Short history and a collection of historical documents available at marxists.org
Eldridge Cleaver Post Prison Writings and Speeches 1969
Sam Durant (ed) Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
David Hilliard and Donald Weise (ed) The Huey P Newton Reader 2002
David Hilliard (ed) The Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service 1967-1980 2007
Göran Olsson (dir) Black Power Mix Tape 1967-1976 (feature documentary) 2011
Biographies of B.P.P. Members
Mumia Abu-Jamal We Want Freedom : A Life in the Black Panther Party 2004
Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power 1993
David Hilliard The Side of Glory. The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party 1993
David Hilliard with Keith and Kent Zimmerman Huey: Spirit of the Panther 2006
Bobby Seale A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale 1978
Assata Shakur Assata: An Autobiography 1987
Recent re-evaluations of the Panthers:
Kathleen Cleaver (ed) Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Black Panthers and Their Legacy 2001
Charles E. Jones (ed) The Black Panther Party (reconsidered) 1998
Shanice McBean ‘“Shoot As Well As Cook”: the Black Panther Party, sexism and the struggle today’ RS21
Stanley Nelson (dir) The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 2015 (film)
Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams (eds) In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement 2006
Bobby Seale & Stephen Shames Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers 2016
Leela Yellessety ‘Women in the Black Panther Party: A roundtable with Ashley Farmer, Mary Phillips and Robyn C. Spencer’ International Socialist Review #111, winter 2018-19 (article)
