Origins
During World War II, tens of thousands of black people left the Southern states during the Second Great Migration, moving to Oakland and other cities in the Bay Area to find work in the war … See more

From its beginnings, the Black Panther Party championed black masculinity and traditional gender roles. A notice in the first issue of The Black Panther newspaper proclaimed the all … See more

There is considerable debate about the impact of the Black Panther Party on the wider society or even their local environments. Author Jama Lazerow writes: See more

• Malloy, Sean L. (2017). Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1501713422.
• "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution | Documentary about Black Panther Party" See more

Members of the Black Panther Party, such as Huey P. Newton, also frequently collaborated with Latino activist groups, like the See more

Huey Newton expressed his support for the Women's liberation movement and the Gay liberation movement in a 1970 letter published in the … See more

The Black Panther Party briefly appeared in 1994's Forrest Gump.
Aaron Sorkin's 2020 Netflix film, The Trial of the Chicago 7, … See more