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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.

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

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

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. 🖤✊🏾

06/25/2026

Repost | We are living in a future someone else fought for. Angela Davis reminds us that lasting change is built across generations.

💡: Black History, Black Freedom, and Black Love

06/19/2026

Repost | Juneteenth marks emancipation, but it also invites us to consider the intellectual traditions that have sustained Black freedom struggles long after 1865. Returning to the Black Panther Party’s reading list is one way of asking what it means to study power, and liberation, as seriously as they did—and to imagine a future brighter and more inclusive than the one we’re living in today. Read the full list on Lit Talk at the link in bio.

05/28/2026

The Black Panther Party Museum is proud to announce the opening of Comrade Sisters, a powerful new exhibition inspired by the acclaimed book by Ericka Huggins and Stephen Shames, opening June 13 with a special public reception.

Comrade Sisters shines a long-overdue spotlight on the women of the Black Panther Party, whose courage, organizing, leadership and sacrifice were instrumental in the Party and the greater struggle for Black Liberation. Through photographs, personal stories, historical materials and first-hand accounts, Comrade Sisters explores the struggles, triumphs and challenges faced by these remarkable women while underscoring the critical role they played in shaping history.

RSVP LINK IN BIO or visit http://bit.ly/4nZ8Duu

Curators: Dr. Xavier Buck () and Mueni Loko Rudd ()

Sourced from Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party by Ericka Huggins () and Stephen Shames ()

Flyer designed by Dontay Lockett ()

See you on Saturday, June 13 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM (1427 Broadway, Oakland)

allpowertothepeople

05/21/2026

Join us on Saturday at 10:00am to watch the tribute to Khalid Raheem.

Khalid was a veteran Black Panther, an acclaimed author, and was known for his work with the National Black Independent Political Party, National Council for Urban Peace and Justice, New Afrikan Workers Union, and the New Afrikan Independence Party.

*We will be watching the memorial live on Youtube which will be held in-person from Pittsburgh, PA.

05/20/2026

“Malcolm asked the Black American: Who taught you to hate yourself? Who taught you to be a pacifist? Was he a pacifist? Who said Black people cannot defend themselves? Does he defend himself? Who taught you not to go too far and too fast in your fight for freedom? Did he stand to lose something by the speed of your victory? Who taught you to vote for the fox to escape the wolf? What does the fox give in return?

…Malcolm always sought to expose those who were responsible for really maintaining the racism of this society rather than directing his fire at the puppets. He never tired of explaining and demonstrating that it was the federal government headed by the president that was responsible for maintaining racism in the North and South. He point out that LBJ’s closest friends in the Senate, Richard Russell, was leading the fight against the civil rights bill. Malcolm was challenged by a reporter who doubted that Johnson’s friendship with Russell proved anything. Malcolm looked at him with his usual smile and said, off the cuff, ‘If you tell me you are against robbing banks, and your best friend is Jesse James, I have grounds to doubt your sincerity.’

The final point in his political development which was so important was Malcolm’s revolutionary internationalism. Malcolm gave at least three reasons for his international outlook. First, was the common identity of the power structure which practiced racism in this country and which practiced imperialism abroad. Second, only through Afro-Americans realizing that they were part of a great majority of non-Whites in the world who were fighting for and winning freedom, would Black people have the courage to fight the battle for freedom at home by whatever means necessary. Last, was the fact that freedom could only be won everywhere. In Africa, Malcolm said, ‘Our problem is your problem…your problem will never be fully solved until and unless ours are solved. You will never be fully respected, until and unless we are also respected. You will never be recognized as free human beings until and unless we are also recognized and treated as human beings.”

- Raymond Lewis, The Black Panther, May 19, 1970

05/17/2026

Angela Davis speaks to crowd at Madison Square Garden behind bulletproof plexiglass on June 29, 1972 during ‘An Evening With Angela Davis,’ part of several nationwide appearances by her to help defray the cost of her recent California trial and acquittal on murder and conspiracy charges.

Excerpts from

05/12/2026

In honor of the birth of Malcolm X, join us for an evening of political education and reflection as we explore his revolutionary transformation and the enduring relevance of his message for African people today.

The program features the following speakers:

Minister Abdul Sabur Muhammad of NOI Mosque 26 speaking on Malcolm X and Transformation

Kwadwo Duane Deterville speaking on Malcolm X and The Black Arts Movement

A panel discussion featuring veteran SF Black Panther Ndugu Jabali with a community Q & A.

Music provided by DJ Senay (.studio)

Black Panther Party Museum
1427 Broadway, Oakland, CA
May 15, 2026 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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