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Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African American revolutionary and political activist who founded the Black Panther Party.
Newton, 8 Cal. App. 3d 359 (Ct. App. 1970), was a controversial appeal arising from the voluntary manslaughter conviction of Huey P. Newton, the reputed co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense, co-founder. Killed in 1989. [41] Kojo Nnamdi, radio host who was a member from 1968 to 1969 in Brooklyn. [42] [43] Jalil Muntaqim, former political prisoner. Salim Muwakkil, journalist. Kiilu Nyasha, journalist. Sekou Odinga, activist. Charlotte Hill O'Neal, community organizer.
The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California.
In his 2016 book Unsolved Civil Rights Murder Cases, 1934–1970, Newton writes that Hampton "was murdered in his sleep by Chicago police with FBI collusion." [ 85 ] This view is also presented in Jakobi Williams's book From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago .
In the finale of Apple TV+'s "The Big Cigar," Huey P. Newton, played by André Holland, tells how the Black Panther co-founder understood the "revolutionary power of media."
Huey P. Newton's flight to Cuba from the U.S. is dramatized in Apple TV+'s The Big Cigar
In 1971, his wife Saundra was killed when she was 8 months pregnant and her body was left in a ditch. The murder was attributed at the time to a BPP schism between supporters of Huey Newton and those of Eldridge Cleaver; Pratt and his wife belonged to the Cleaver faction. Pratt later believed this account was an FBI lie, and that Saundra's ...