Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover described the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as "the greatest threat to internal security of the country" in an official memo in 1969... By Victoria M. Massie.

"This aggressive stance among African Americans—nobody had ever seen anything like that." By Edwin Rios

Stanley Nelson's documentary on the BPP is “history” by and for lazy American liberals. He turns the BPP into a pop culture icon a T-shirt. Nelson mentions guns hundreds of times, big naturals and swagger a few dozen times but not the word “socialism” once in 2 hours... By Bruce A. Dixon.

Power to the people. By Lilly Workneh and Taryn Finley.

At the beginning of Stanley Nelson’s “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” former party member Ericka Huggins tells the story off the blind men and the elephant. Each man touches a different part of the creature and comes away with a different impression... By Alyssa Rosenberg.

You may recall that little show Beyoncé put on in her portion of the Super Bowl halftime show the other day, in which she was choreographically supported by a corps of black women dressed and coiffed in a way meant to suggest the informal uniform of the Black Panther Party... By Robert Lloyd.

In his film The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, black documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson slices and dices the history of the Black Panther Party into a two-dimensional palliative for white people and Negroes who are comfortable in America’s oppressive status quo.

“. . . It’s a tricky business, integrating new politics with tried and true social motifs . . .” By Tom Wolfe. (June ’70)

“Today marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. On December 4, 1969, Chicago police raided Hampton’s apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. He was just 21 years old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the raid. While authorities claimed...”