The Black Panther Newspaper

The Black Panther was the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party. It began as a four-page newsletter in Oakland, California, in 1967, and was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. It was the main publication of the party and was soon sold in several large cities across the United States, as well as having an international readership. The Blank Panther issue No. 2 The newspaper distributed information about the party's activities, and expressed through articles the ideology of the Black Panther Party, focusing on both international revolutions as inspiration and contemporary racial struggles of African Americans across the United States.

The Black Panther Party maintained a commitment to community service including various "survival programs" developed by individual chapters that, by 1969, became part of the national party's "serve the people program" to connect their commitments to basic social services with community organizing and consciousness raising. The Black Panther Party's Intercommunal News Service published The Black Panther Party Newspaper as a critical part of its consciousness raising program.

The Black Panther Party Newspaper is also known as The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, Black Panther Black Community News Service, and Black Community News Service, was published by the Black Panther Party from 1967 to 1980. The newspaper was most popular from 1968-1972, and during this time sold a hundred thousand copies a week.

An undergraduate student at San Francisco State, Judy Juanita, served as editor at The Black Panther Party Newspaper during the later 1960s. In 1969, two-thirds of Black Panther Party members were women.

In its later years it was used to rally support for members of the party who became political prisoners.

"The BPP newspaper grew from a four-page newsletter to a full newspaper in about a year and [537] issues were printed".

Circulation was national and international. From 1968 to 1971, The Black Panther Party Newspaper was the most widely read Black newspaper in the United States, with a weekly circulation of more than 300,000. It sold for 25 cents. Every Panther was required to read and study the newspaper before they could sell it. As it became nationally circulated, The Black Panther Party Newspaper national distribution center was located in San Francisco, with a distribution team led by Andrew Austin, Sam Napier, and Ellis White. Other distribution centers were in Chicago, Kansas, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle.

The copies of The Black Panther collected here were made publically available here: https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/4m7axa/a_complete_archive_of_the_black_panther_partys/ In 1968 a copyright symbol started to appear on the masthead of The Black Panther. In investigating this copyright it appears to gone into irrelevancy asnpapers were subsequently filed with regards to the ownership of the copyright with the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress. The Marxists Internet Archive will assume it has fallen into the Public Domain. We welcome any discussion of the legality of this. Please contact us.

The Black Panther Newspaper

Black Panther: Volume 1, 1967

Black Panther: Volume 2, 1968-1969

Black Panther: Volume 3, 1969

Black Panther: Volume 4, 1969-1970

Black Panther: Volume 5, 1970-1971

Black Panther: Volume 6, 1971

Black Panther: Volume 7, 1971-1972

Black Panther: Volume 8, 1972

Black Panther: Volume 9, 1972

Black Panther: Volume 10, 1973

Black Panther: Volume 11, 1974

Black Panther: Volume 12, 1974

Black Panther: Volume 13, 1975

Black Panther: Volume 14, 1975

Black Panther: Volume 15, 1976