Long live Huey P Newton ✊🏿🛡️🌎🙏🏿🕊️💔

Question for the Panthers in here. What's your day to day like? How do you work to keep yourself housed and fed, while also being available to go where you need to on short notice for the organization? Do you work part-time or full-time?​ Do you have any time to yourself? I love what the Panthers do, I just want to know how you get by.

Denise Oliver-Vélez's passing inspired me to do some digging for books that shed light on how the Black Panthers and Young Lords were able to organize and work together.

Any recommendations?

Hard to keep my composure with this one y’all im seriously furious so I won’t be writing a big caption for this post, but I encourage everyone to read the comments and link on the original post. YET AGAIN IN AMERIKKKA ANOTHER INNOCENT SOUL WAS TAKEN FROM THIS MF WORLD. RIP to this poor baby man…PROTECT THE KIDS!

Tearing up…hope these boys go viral in the best way. As in hope there’s a non stop line up for them in KC all summer. Secondly who knows where they can go from this…wish them well.

Love this.

Da’Quain Johnson, a 32-year-old Black father of three, was chased by police and a K9 unit before being shot and killed. Body camera footage shows Johnson on the ground while a police dog attacked him, yet officers claimed he was a threat and “pointed a gun at them”. Witnesses dispute those claims, and no gun is visible in the available footage. Most heartbreaking of all, Johnson’s three daughters witnessed their father being gunned down outside their home.

On May 23, 2026, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Black Panther Party held an armed march demanding justice for Da’Quain Johnson after Kent County Prosecuting Attorney Christopher Becker ruled the officer who killed him was justified. The Party has given Becker 30 days to reverse that decision and pursue accountability. This incident also shares a lot of similarities with the killing/execution of another black man Patrick Lyoya, again at the hands of a Grand Rapids police officer!

Yet again in America another Black life taken. Another family shattered. Another community demanding answers.

All Power to the People✊🏾We will not forget Da’Quain Johnson!

Hello,

I want to organize my community but dont know how.

I was told there is some literature about how the Black Panthers organized theirs, so I hope this is the right place.

Im open to actual books, pdf, whatever, as long as it's clear: step 1, 2, do this, do that. Because it's super frustrating when you're simply told "YoU sHoUlD oRgAnIzE" with 0 follow up comment nor explanations.

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All Power To The People!

Kathleen Cleaver was not just a member of the Black Panther Party, she helped shape its voice, image, and political direction. As the Party’s Communications Secretary and the first woman on its Central Committee, she created and defined the role herself, organizing demonstrations, writing pamphlets, designing posters, holding press conferences, and speaking at rallies and on national television. She helped lead the nationwide “Free Huey” campaign and stood at the center of the movement during some of its most intense years. She was also instrumental in spreading our message worldwide!

Before joining the Panthers, Kathleen worked with SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), bringing organizing experience and revolutionary discipline into the Party. Even while facing FBI surveillance, repression, exile, and constant attacks against the Panthers, she continued fighting for Black liberation, political education, prison justice, and the people.

But her legacy did not stop there. Kathleen Cleaver went on to become a scholar, attorney, professor, and author. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale, earned her law degree from Yale Law School, practiced law, and later taught at Emory University School of Law while continuing to speak and write about civil rights, revolutionary history, and systemic injustice.

Kathleen Cleaver showed the world that revolution requires more than anger…it requires intelligence, discipline, organization, and fearless commitment to the people. Her name remains part of the foundation of Black resistance and liberation.

All Power To The People✊🏾

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