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 [Aug 8, 1970]
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,
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Oct. 10 1970]
Cover Story: It Must Be Fully Understood By Every Man, Woman, and Child in this Country That America Itself is Nothing More Than a Massive, Grotesque Penitentiary and That Brothers Who Are Being Held Illegally in Maximum Security Jails of Babylon Must be Released! Also Inside: General Motors Corporation Must Be Destroyed, Seize the Time Benefit, The Soledad Seven, Chairman Bobby's and Sister Ericka's Pre-Trial Motions.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Feb 27, 1971]
Cover Story: The San Quentin Branch of the Black Panther Party Opens!
Also Inside: New York's Lincoln Hospital - Children's War - A Ward of Death for Our Children, We Want Decent Housing (Bronx, Ny), Free Medical Care Center in Chicago implementing a Preventative Health Care Program, Conspiracy Against Rev. Koen (Cairo, Ill.), 'Operation Nevada' for Welfare Rights, Pig Nixon's Cousins are on Welfare, "Huey Newton's Plush Pad" a Gross Distortion, A Letter from Attorney Lefcourt, Booby Seale and Ericka Huggins Trial, Pigs Attack Inmates of Baltimore City Jail, Attack on Black Community Information Center, High Point, NC., Weapon Safety, Fascist Repression Breeding in the South (police attack N.C.C.F. in Winston-Salem, NC.)