Description

More than 40 years after the Black Panther Party was founded the group and its leadership remain powerful and enduring images in our popular imagination. This will weave together the voices of those who lived this story - police informants journalists white supporters and detractors those who remained loyal to the party and those who left it.Features firsthand accounts from participants including Kathleen Cleaver, the first Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown, former Black Panther Party chairman (1974-1977) Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Party's Minister of Culture and chief art director for the party s newspaper, and others