Popular Representations of The Black Panthers

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Popular Representations of The Black Panthers
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Huey P. Newton
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It's time to fight back/ that's what Huey said/
two shots in the dark/now Huey's dead Tupac
Changes

• Depth of his influence beyond traditionally
  Black culture
  
• Huey P. Newton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Free Huey LyricsDrag the shades across the
  windowDont answer any knock at the doorKeep
  your hand on the weapon beside youKeep your eyes
  out for the lawDont you know and you gotta be
  all you can beWere told to run towards the
  futureWhile theyre standing on our feetAnd be
  content with the scraps that they throw usAfter
  promising a feastIf you didnt have a gun then I
  wouldnt need a gun
• The Boo Radleys Free Huey lyrics

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Bobby Seale
Though your brother's bound and gagged, and
they've chained him to a chair
Graham Nash Chicago
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The Panthers in Everyday Life Propaganda and
Legacies
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Images by Emory Douglas

• http//www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Emory_Art/Emory_Dou
  glas_Art.html
  
• Shows popular images during the 1960s and early
  70s as noted in Rhodes, the gun, the snarling
  panther, the raised fist, and slogans such as,
  All power to the people and Off the pig. pg.3.

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Panthers in Popular Culture

• Paris the Rapper- Panther Power
• http//youtube.com/watch?vnBvkCGqgW6w
• Same SongThis time Tupac
• http//youtube.com/watch?v8mFbI4OUQIE

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Black August -Movie

• A modern representation of George Jackson of the
  Panthers Party.
  
• http//youtube.com/watch?vGKlWELvdU2E

• Black August is based on the true story of George
  Jackson, revolutionary prison activist, Field
  Marshall General of The Black Panther Party, and
  founder of the infamous Black Guerilla Family.
  Written by TCinque Sampson, Produced by 276
  Productions and released by Warner Brothers in
  2007.

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Prominent Panthers
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Black Panther National Anthem

• And, his full lips of nightSpoke about our
  people's plightAnd a feeling familiarly came
  around.REFRAINAnd, we sat and we talkedAbout
  freedom and things.And, he told me about what he
  dreamed.But I knew of that dreamLong before he
  had spokeAnd a feeling familiarly came
  around.REFRAIN
• http//americanart.si.edu/realaudio/docs_nmaa-ryde
  r/posters/brownfinal.ram - Real Player
  
• SourceThe Black Panther newspaper, April 27,
  1969.The text can also be found in Philip S.
  Foner's, The Black Panthers Speak (Philadelphia
  J. B. Lippincott, 1970), p. xxx.

• Yes - He turned and he walkedPast the eyes of my
  life.And, he nodded and sang without sound.And
  his face had the lookOf a man who knew
  strifeAnd a feeling familiarly came around.
  REFRAINI said,Man, where have you been for
  all these yearsMan, where were you when I sought
  youMan, am I coming throughAnd, he spoke in a
  voiceThat was centuries old.And, be smiled in a
  way that was strange.

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The End!!! (or merely the beginning...)