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
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Dec. 14 1970]
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.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Dec 19, 1970]
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.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Apr 17, 1971]
Cover Story: On the Defection of Eldridge Cleaver from the Black Panther Party and the Defection of the Black Panther Party from the Black Community
Also Inside: Lead Poisoning Causes Mental Retardation (Black Children living in poor conditions suffer from Lead Poisoning St. Louis Missouri), Regan-Nixon Criminal Conspiracy to Disobey Law, Decent Housing Should be A Human Right not a Class Privilege (Chicago, Il.), California Trying to Lead in Welfare Cutbacks, Eleven Experienced Workers "Laid off" (Hunters Point Navel Shipyard San Francisco,Ca), "A Happy Employee is a Good Employee" (repression of workers at the Newcomb Hall Food Services at the University of Virginia) , Black GIs Revolt at Fort Davis Panama Canal Zone, Open Letter to Muhammad Ali, Wisconsin Assemblyman Introducing Bills For Poor and Oppressed People, Fascists Run Amuck in the Community of Las Vegas, Charles Bursey is Silenced at Susanville, California Concentration Camp, Convicts of Susanville, Unit! Statement to All Susanville Inmates, Racism Imprisons Blacks in E. St. Louis, Repression Breeds Resistance Freeport, Long Island, Soledad Seven Tear-Gassed, Arizona Sends Young Blacks to Death Row on Testimony of Half-Blind Witness,Position Paper No. 1 On Art of Survival for the Black Community By Emory Douglas, Cleveland Breakfast for Children program to Expand, Survival at the Baltimore City Jail, Interview with a Cuban Revolutionary (cont.), Where is Fred Bennett