Black Panther Party Community News Service
The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service was a weekly periodical with national and international distribution. It was published for 13 years, starting in 1967, and was sometimes called the Black Panther Black Community News Service or the Black Panther Community News Service. In its heyday, the Party sold several hundred thousand copies of the newspaper per week.
Although you can only access the front and back covers digitally, we have the entire papers physically preserved in the archives. Please schedule a research visit to access the papers in their entirety. Unfortunately, at this time we do not have the resources to scan articles / individual issues by demand.
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Documents
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 8/8/1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-6 August 8Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Romaine 'Chip' Fitzgerald Political Prisoner 1970 San Quentin Prison Death Row. Also inside: Two articles by Kathleen Cleaver, Interview with Clara Lowa (Big Mama) Concerning Her Family's Unfit Housing Conditions (Seattle, Washington), Statement by Nguyen Minh Vy, Boston's South End, Horrible Housing Conditions Not Fit For Shelter of Human Beings (Cincinnati, Oh.), Struggle for housing and food stamps for Mother's in Indianapolis, Obituary of Black Panther Babatunde (Chicago,Il.) who was murdered by the FBI by being blown up on railroad tracks, SF Black Panther Community Health Classes, Racist Police in Winston Salem, NC. People's Bussing Program in Seattle, Wa. , Police and racist repression of the Black Panther Newspaper, Repressive Gun Laws in Maryland, Demands from Panther prisoners Rose Smith and Ericka Huggins of the Panther Connecticut 9, Tupamaros Attacked the Homes of Four Uruguayan Police Officers,
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 11/21/1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-21 November 21Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Pigs Assassinate Brother and Sister in Robbins, Illinois. Barbara Franks (16) and Ronald Lee (28) killed by Robbins, Il. police officers. Also inside: Bussing Program in Boston, Black Panther office in New Orleans eviction, Beginning of trail for Bobby Seale, and Ericka Huggins in Conn., prisoners requests after Queens Branch Prison revolts. poor conditions of the public housing in the Bronx, Greedy landlords in Brooklyn, Housing Crimes Trial in New York facilitated by a coalition of community orgs. long interview with Panther lawyer Gerald Lefcourt, testimony from the Tombs revolt in New York City, Peggy Hudgins experiences medical malpractice after incarceration.
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 11/28/1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-22 November 28Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention, Howard University, Washington DC, November 27-29, 1970. Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense Will Read the People's New Constitution.
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 12/14/1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-24Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: New York City Criminal Slumlords Are Crime Partners With City Government Officials and Courts
Also inside: People's Tribunal On Housing Crimes: People of the City of New York Against the Government of the City of New York, Landlords of NYC, Banks of NY- Defendant's Indictment no. 1/1970, Raymond Brooks murdered by off duty Philadelphia Police Officer, Year anniversary of the murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, Statement of solidarity with the Black Panthers from the Iranian Students Association in the United States, the horrible condition of Cabrini Green Housing Project (NYC), Message to Black Entertainers, Berkeley Community Worker Carlos Jordan assaulted by Berkeley PD when observing an arrest, An Open Letter to the BSU at Laney College Oakland, Landlord harassment in Philadelphia, Pa., Katherine Robinson beaten by Richmond, Ca Police, Press Statements re: Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale, Letter from Lonnie McLucas, Neither the People Inside nor the Outside of the USA Will Tolerate Bobby Seale Being Condemned to Death by Eldridge Cleaver, A Message to the Black GIs in South Korea from Kathleen Cleaver, Elaine Brown and Andrew Trusker, Members of the US People's Anti-Imperialist Delegation, Speak Before a War Crimes Tribunal at the University of California.
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 12/19/1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-25Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Guerrilla War in the U.S.A.
Also Inside: Racist Slumlord Killed in Richmond, California Trying to Kill Tenant, Reese Drug Store New Haven, Conn. Site of Fascist Brutality Against the People, White Racist Attack Husband and Wide (Winston-Salem), Brooklyn pigs Brutalize Railroad Brother Samuel Smith, Decent Housing - A Mockery in New Haven, Connecticut!, Children Brutalized by Racist Principal in Winston- Salem, NC., Press Release! United Front of Cairo Information Service, Rent a Pig in the Hunters Point Area (California), The Case of Irving Ochika Young Proves Once Again That Justice is Ignored, Enemies of the People, Negro Spokesman in Berkeley Distorts Community Control of Police Initiative, An open Letter to High School Students - from Katara, NY, 21 (Panther 21), Attention-- Intellectuals and Artists, Black Man Shot Down by Avaricious Businessman, We Can't Wait Another Day, Delegates to the R.P.C.C. Denied Passage on Airlines, Mis-Education, Communique on Police Raids, On Folsom Prison Strike, Report on the Trial of Chairman Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins, Pigs Block Visiting Privileges of Political Prisoner Lonnie McLucas,A Brother is Dying in the Black Community of the USA Because of Apathy; It's the Same as if You Were in the Black Community of South Africa, Carbondale, Illinois, Gene Roberts- Wanted by the People for Conspiracy to Railroad the New York panther 21, Charges Dropped on Marine in Hand Grenade Case, Report on NY 21 Trial: Pig Gene Robert's Testimony Full of Contradictions, Lumumba and Kinshasa of the New York 21 Indicted for New York Prison Revolt, The Masses Must Never Allow Angela Davis to be Extradited, In Defense of Jose Wilson.
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 12/26/1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-26Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The Last Christmas??? Death to the Fascist Pigs
Also inside: Oakland Police Department hires 23 year old Saundra Brown as a police officer, Bertha and Jay Sanders and their 11 children are evicted from home in Mt. Vernon, The People's Tribunal on Housing Crimes in NYC leads to the Charter of the People's Housing Coalition, Poverty on the rise in the USA, a report on the conditions of the New York Women's House of Detention by the inmates, Chicano Brother Offs Pig (Los Angeles), Maximum Security High School by the Students of Centennial High School (Compton, Ca.) , Eight Year old Black Youth Beaten By Racists (Philadelphia,Pa), We Have To Wage a Struggle Inside the Jails and Prisons Simultaneously With the Struggle in the Streets by Robert Williams, The Trial of Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale, Bussing Program in Cleveland, Ohio, The Vietnam War and the US Business Empire, Medical Genocide in Black Communities, Prison Bulletin December 1970, The Oak Park Four (Jack Strivers, Booker T. Cooke, Ceriaco Cabrallis, and Mark Teemer accused of sniping a police officer in Sacramento, CA),
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 1/9/1971Volume Number: Vol. 5-28Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: "In the spirit of revolutionary solidarity the Black Panther Party hereby offers to the National Liberation Frint and Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam an undetermined number of troops to assist you in your fight against American imperialism."
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 1/16/1971Volume Number: Vol. 5-29Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: You Can Kill a Revolutionary But You Can't Kill a Revolution.
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 1/30/1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: It Will be the People and Only the People who will Wrest Control of the Lives of Chairman Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins Out of the Hands of the Fascist American Administrators.
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 2/13/1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-3Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Enemies of the People