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In 2012, French LFKs collective presented a contemporary opera referring to Huey P. Newton, directed by Jean Michel Bruyère at the Festival international d'art lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence. Une situation HUEY P. NEWTON was the second chapter of vitaNONnova, a series of stage and film productions around the Black Panther Party and its founders. [86]
Huey P. Newton co-founded, with Bobby Seale, and was one of the leaders of, the Black Panther Party (BPP). The party was founded in Oakland California in October 1966 at a time of rising racial tension in the USA. [2] There had been serious race riots in the Harlem area of New York in 1964 and Watts area of Los Angeles in 1965.
On October 28, 1967, Oakland police officer John Frey was shot to death in an altercation with Huey P. Newton during a traffic stop in which Newton and backup officer Herbert Heanes also sustained gunshot wounds. Newton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter at trial, but the conviction was later overturned.
James plays Blank Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton. He says jumping into the role took a lot of hard work. "There's such a respect within this film because you want to get it right," he says.
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."
Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton were strongly inspired by the teachings of activist Malcolm X, who had been assassinated in 1965. 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.
Apple will take on the story of Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton for a limited series with Don Cheadle The post Andre Holland in talks to play Huey P. Newton in Don Cheadle-directed series for ...
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 ...