Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African American revolutionary and political activist who founded the Black Panther Party.He ran the party as its first leader and crafted its ten-point manifesto with Bobby Seale in 1966.
Black Panther Party leaders Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale spoke on a 10-point program they wanted from the administration which was to include full employment, decent housing and education, an end to police brutality, and black people to be exempt from the military. Black Panther Party members are shown as they marched in ...
Joan Tarika Lewis, graphic artist associated with the newspaper The Black Panther and the first woman to join the party. [39] Connie Matthews, International Coordinator of the BPP. Lonnie McLucas, Bridgeport, Connecticut member convicted in the murder of Alex Rackley. [40] Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense, co-founder. Killed in 1989.
Even Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter charges in the death of Oakland police officer John Frey, though Newton's conviction was eventually thrown out.
André Holland and Alessandro Nivola in <i>The Big Cigar</i> Credit - Apple TV+. H uey P. Newton would have been skeptical of The Big Cigar, a miniseries that dramatizes his flight from the U.S ...
The Apple TV+ series looks at the relationship between Black Panther Huey P. Newton and Hollywood producer Bert Schneider as they plan a fake movie to usher Newton's escape.
The two joined together in October 1966 to create the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, which adopted the late activist's slogan "freedom by any means necessary" as their own. Prior to starting the Black Panther Party, Seale and Newton created a group known as the Soul Students Advisory Council.
Newton grew up in Oakland after his family moved there from Louisiana due to the military opportunities during World War II. Co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Newton served as Minister of Defense, and in effect was the BPP's leader, writing the Party's 10-Point Platform and Program alongside co-founder Bobby Seale. Convicted of voluntary ...