Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Black Panther Community News Service became a major vehicle that showcased the Black Panther Party’s engagement with historical narratives, memory, and commemoration. The work done by the Black Panther Party should be read as a public history project that became a critical part of the organization’s community survival programs. Through the newspaper, the Black Panthers interwove their own stories into a larger narrative of Black history, situating themselves as inheritors and innovators of a heritage tradition that goes back centuries. That history was both global and international in scale as well as intimately local.
Source: The Public Historian
Author: Cheryl X. Dong
Institution: National Park Service
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: National Park Service
OpenAlex ID: W4407689122