Extensive run of over two hundred and fifty issues of the influential Black Panther Party newspaper. Published from April 25, 1967 through September 1980, the BLACK PANTHER INTERCOMMUNAL NEWS SERVICE “was always ahead of any other publication in analyzing the issues and concerns that affected the black community and all oppressed people” (Stan Oden, “Power to the People”). Serving an information source for the Party’s political actions, ideology, and community “Survival Programs,” the BPINS newspaper also reported on coalition activities, other activist causes, and national and international news. Production and distribution of the newspaper continued through a sustained campaign of harassment and sabotage by the FBI, and at the height of its run, BPINS was printed on a Black Panther Party-owned press in editions of several hundred thousands of copies. Under the art direction of Minister of Culture Emory Douglas, whose work is regularly and prominently featured throughout the run, BPINS also helped define the visual vocabulary and style of both black pride and black power. This collection spans the full decade of the 1970s, from Volume 2, No. 24 (1969) through Volume 19, No. 8 (1979), and includes more than half of the issues published. The largest and most representative collection of this important document of the counterculture we’ve encountered.

$22,000