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Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Preserving and promoting the Black Panther Party legacy and its co-founder, Dr. Huey P. Newton, since 1995.

We own the largest Black Panther Party archive and, in January 2024, opened the Black Panther Party Museum in downtown Oakland, California.

Your guide to the 60th Anniversary Conference is here. 🙌🏾Swipe for everything you need to know before you arrive, includ...
10/15/2026

Your guide to the 60th Anniversary Conference is here. 🙌🏾

Swipe for everything you need to know before you arrive, including:

★ When and where to go for your conference wristband
★ Who to look for when you have questions
★ What events during the 60th that are open to the public

Registration begins tomorrow at Black Panther Party Museum — this provides an opportunity to pick up your conference wristband before the conference officially kicks off on 10/16.

See y’all soon! 🐾

The full schedule for the 60th Anniversary is here! 🤩In the coming days, we’ll come together for panels, workshops, exhi...
10/13/2026

The full schedule for the 60th Anniversary is here! 🤩

In the coming days, we’ll come together for panels, workshops, exhibits and performances honoring and analyzing the legacy of the Black Panther Party alongside the very Panthers that lived through it all.

Click the 🔗 in our bio for a full list and description of each workshop or comment SCHEDULE and we’ll send it to you.

Thank you to our sponsors, volunteers, committee, and community that helped make this happen — we can’t wait to commune with you! 🖤

[And for those who can’t make it IRL, we’ll be livestreaming select workshop sessions for remote viewing — more info on this soon!]

“We had a number of other people killed that year, like Nathaniel Clark. Then, as we got toward the end of the year, we ...
09/15/2026

“We had a number of other people killed that year, like Nathaniel Clark. Then, as we got toward the end of the year, we had the assault on our office. I think it still exists as the most violent and longest assault on any citizen organization ever in the history of the country – including the assault on the MOVE organization by the Philadelphia police and the SLA in Los Angeles. The assault on our office lasted over 5 hours with over 300 LAPD and SWAT team members hitting it with everything from grenades to helicopter r***e guns. There were 11 people in our office, of which two were women. They were able to defend the office and their lives, though they did end up going up to prison. Ironically, nobody was ever ultimately convicted of any real crime, so we have to ask ourselves why did the LAPD even come to the door in the first place?” – Elaine Brown, Truthout Interview (2014)

As we move closer to the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, we welcome you to follow along and engage as we celebrate the Black Panther chapters around the country, ensuring that their words, activism, and inspiration live on.

Want to get involved? Learn more by visiting bpp60.org or at the link in our bio.

“One day Huey said, ‘It’s about time we get the organization off the ground, and do it now.’ This was in the latter part...
09/04/2026

“One day Huey said, ‘It’s about time we get the organization off the ground, and do it now.’ This was in the latter part of September 1966. From around the first of October to the fifteenth of October, in the poverty center in North Oakland, Huey and I began to write out a ten-point platform and program of the Black Panther Party. Huey himself articulated it word for word. All I made were suggestions. Huey said, ‘We need a program. We have to have a program for the people. A program that relates to the people. A program that the people can understand. A program that the people can read and see, and which expresses their desires and needs at the same time. It’s got to relate to the philosophical meaning of where in the world we are going, but the philosophical meaning will also have to relate to something specific.’”

– Bobby Seale in “Seize the Time”

As we move closer to the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, we welcome you to follow along and engage as we celebrate the Black Panther chapters around the country, ensuring that their words, activism, and inspiration live on.

Want to get involved? Learn more by visiting BPP 60th Anniversary, bpp60.org or at the link in our bio.

We’re LESS THAN 50 DAYS AWAY from a historic weekend, and we just want to know who all gon’ be there? 👀Since the 50th an...
08/31/2026

We’re LESS THAN 50 DAYS AWAY from a historic weekend, and we just want to know who all gon’ be there? 👀

Since the 50th anniversary, so much has happened:

★ The Black Panther Party Museum was founded

★ More books by Panthers have been published

★ Dr. Huey P. Newton Way was officially named in West Oakland along with the revealing of his bust

★ Bobby Hutton Grove was designated at DeFremery Park

★ Bobby Seale Way was officially named in North Oakland

In short, this 60th Anniversary is monumental.

If you needed an invitation, this is it — we want to honor, celebrate, and extend the legacy of our beloved Panthers with you all.

Swipe ⬅️ for the various ways you can experience the Black Panther Party’s 60th Anniversary weekend.

*Panther alum discounts available after verification.*

See you October 15- 18, where it all started: Oakland, CA. 🐾

★ All proceeds go to political prisoners’ well-being and legal defense, as well as supporting the Black Panther Party Museum existence and education initiatives. ★

“The ideology of the Black Panther Party is the historical experiences of Black people in America translated through Mar...
08/31/2026

“The ideology of the Black Panther Party is the historical experiences of Black people in America translated through Marxism-Leninism. When we review the past history of Black people in this country, we realize that after four hundred years we are victims of the oppressive machinery that gags, binds, and chains Black men who speak out in defense of their alleged constitutional rights.”

– David Hilliard in The Black Panther Vol. III, No. 29: November 8, 1969.

As we move closer to the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, we welcome you to follow along and engage as we celebrate Black Panthers throughout history, ensuring that their words, activism, and inspiration live on. Learn more at www.bpp60.org.

08/28/2026

“People related to the idea of being spread out in the community. I told them that if the pigs come down in our community in vicious force, then we should move around in small groups of threes and fours in defense of ourselves. I explained to them that if the pigs bring tanks down to our community, the young brothers are going to have to use guerilla tactics and learn how to take those tanks, because those tanks are brought there only to slaughter and kill our people. The people clapped, man. The people really dug it. They really dug this understanding, and that got off with me and made me feel like I was doing right. It showed me that the people had learned, and what the people had learned is what the Party had learned. That’s the reason the organization came to exist in the first place.”

– Bobby Seale in “Seize the Time”, in the aftermath of the murder of Bobby Hutton

As we move closer to the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, we welcome you to follow along and engage as we celebrate Black Panthers throughout history, ensuring that their words, activism, and inspiration live on.

On August 22, 1989, Dr. Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was killed in West Oakland. While his ear...
08/22/2026

On August 22, 1989, Dr. Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was killed in West Oakland. While his earthly body has left us, his spirit continues to move through the streets of Oakland, into the homes of Black and oppressed people everywhere, and still shakes our nation to its core. We have proudly preserved his legacy through the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation for over 30 years and through the Black Panther Party Museum more recently. As Black history is being erased across this country, we are reminded of the unfinished business Dr. Huey P. Newton started.

“Revolutionary su***de does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death.“

- Dr. Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Su***de

Honoring, studying, and recommitting ourselves to the work of our fallen comrades this Black August.“With each advanceme...
08/01/2026

Honoring, studying, and recommitting ourselves to the work of our fallen comrades this Black August.

“With each advancement in the authoritarian process and strengthening of the ruling class’s control over the system, there was of course a corresponding weakening of the people’s and worker’s movement. It follows naturally…

Questioning the existence of a fascist arrangement, and the accompanying centralization of power, and the largest part of the Gross National Product into the hands of a minute portion of the population allows us also to continue to question whether or not revolution has failed. It relieves us of the responsibility of admitting failure, and quit. For reformism can only work against us, if we allow it, if we make concessions, if we compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class. A compromise was made in the past, in the 30’s, the 40’s, the 50’s. The old vanguard parties did make gross strategic and tactical errors. This must be faced without emotionalism, petty squabbles; and must be re-riposted with clinical disregard today. Errors were made, opportunities allowed to slip past, and for various human reasons - some honest, some dishonest. In some cases the members of the old vanguard were clearly forced into the existential moment, the last revelation about oneself. Some did not want to risk their whole futures, their lives, to alter the conditions that Huey P. Newton describes as ‘destructive of life.”

- George Jackson, Black Panther Party Intercommunal News Service, August 28, 1971

Rest in power Denise Oliver-Vélez! ✊🏾🕊️She was the first woman elected to the Young Lords Central Committee, rising to M...
07/18/2026

Rest in power Denise Oliver-Vélez! ✊🏾🕊️

She was the first woman elected to the Young Lords Central Committee, rising to Minister of Finance and later Minister of Economic Development — the highest-ranking woman in the party’s history. She was also a member of the Black Panther Party, standing at the intersection of two of the era’s most transformative liberation movements.

Oliver-Vélez helped build the Young Lords’ Serve the People programs and shaped the group’s core literature, including its newspaper Palante. She and other women in the party pushed back against “revolutionary machismo” in the group’s original platform, forcing a rewrite that demanded equality for women and an end to male chauvinism — a fight that reshaped how the movement understood liberation itself.

She carried that work forward for decades: becoming the first Black woman to serve as a program director in public radio, teaching anthropology and women’s studies at SUNY New Paltz, and mentoring generations of organizers who came after her. Denise Oliver-Vélez didn’t just live through history — she helped write it, and she made sure the movement made room for the women doing the work. 🖤✊🏾

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