Power to the Panthers

Huey Newton poster, 1967

"The Black Panthers weren’t alone in theorizing that the black community was a 'colony in the mother country' and calling for self-determination as part of a global struggle against imperialism. What distinguished them was their advocacy of armed self-defense against the police." A Q&A with Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr., authors of Black Against Empire, the history and politics of the Black Panther party: http://harpers.org/blog/2013/03/black-against-empire-the-history-and-politics-of-the-black-panther-party/