the black panthers: vanguard of the revolution transcript

Screening and Discussion in partnership with Vermont Public Television and Prof. Bill Hart of "Indie Lens Pop-Up's The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution". Without the kind of authoritative contexta museum or historical institution might provide, this presentation fails to engage with internal rifts and conflicts, a much-needed perspective on gender politics, or the Partys eventual demise. Avram Billig The Black Panthers fought racial oppression in the late 60s and 70s, serving as a catalyst for societal change while also at times resorting to violence. Health Care in Crisis: Warning! Mark Kitchell If the lessons of the Partys successes and failures can offer us any insight, it would be their insistent demand to organize, resist, and ultimately, to act. Federal Bureau of Investigation Estate of Howard Brodie, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-123456], ABC Videosource I MEAN, THERE'S SO MANY THINGS AND I URGE ALL OF YOU FILMMAKERS, WANT TO BE FILMMAKERS, TO DVR THIS DOCUMENTARY AND STUDY BECAUSE THIS IS A DOCUMENTARY THAT IS WELL DONE. Courtesy of Brunswick Record Corporation. Performed by The Last Poets A free showing of the film "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" will be screened at the Peterborough Community Theatre on Tuesday at 7 p.m. At the 50-year anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party by Bobby Seale and the late Huey P. Newton, a new film by Stanley Nelson explores the history of that movement, the . Stephen Shames, Angela Davis, who was a Black Panther for six months, speaks at a Free Huey rally in Defremery Park, Oakland, California, November 12, 1969Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. When on the society site, please use the credentials provided by that society. The collective autobiography of the New York Panther 21, an infamous conspiracy case that highlighted government repression of Black liberation activists during the 1960s and 1970s. AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER STANLEY NELSON REFLECTS ON CIVIL RIGHTS- FROM THE BLACK PANTHERS MOVEMENT TO THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT AND WHAT TODAYS DEMONSTRATORS CAN LEARN FROM THEIR PREDECESSORS WHO FOUGHT BEFORE THEM. I MEAN, ARE YOU RALLYING AGAINST THE FACT THAT A COP, YOU KNOW, SAT ON A GUY'S NECK FOR ALMOST NINE MINUTES UNTIL HE WAS DEAD? Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum And so they're trapped in some ways [and] can't get out of that box as time goes on. Doug Coronado hide caption. And Im going to do as much as I can, Im going to start right now. Rather than the usual textbook approach that focuses on the famous photos of angry black men wearing leather jackets and berets while toting firearms, this is a much more comprehensive look at the complexities of the organization and its members. February 17, 2016. Pirkle Jones & Ruth-Marion Baruch MCF THAT IS MY UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIAL, STANLEY. Jennifer Chien SO WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS, BUT I THINK WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT IS THAT RIGHT NOW THIS MOVEMENT HAS TAKEN OFF, THAT, YOU KNOW, THE MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE CONTRIBUTING AND LEADING IT, YOU KNOW, I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO BACK UP AND LET THEM DO WHAT THEY'RE DOING BECAUSE THEY SEEM -- IT SEEMS TO BE REALLY WORKING AND THEY SEEM TO BE DOING IT REALLY, REALLY WELL. One of the most moving sequences in the film is a shot of Hampton leading a multi-racial mass meeting in Chicago, bringing them to their feet, fists in the air, chanting I am a revolutionary!. [@8:00 to understand the Panthers at all you have to understand what was going on in this period that we cover on the film 1966 to73.You know when there were all these movementschurningin America at the time.There was the traditional civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the student movement the women's liberation movement there were all these things about what happened and they were all part of you know what was going on in the states. Trudy Williams, Production Interns Raquel Stewart Bill Wingell, Oakland Tribune/ Bay Area News Group East Bay, LLC, Bob Olender, Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library, Daily Worker/Daily World Photographs Collection Tamiment Library, New York University, Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, Philadelphia, PA, Howard Robbins /San Francisco Examiner Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley I was taught to be proper.Behave yourself.Youre going out in public to always know that the white man was listening.With the Black Panthers coming to the scene, it was just a completely different message.As a 12 year old, youknow what?You had this whole other portrayal of self and just really digging it! KQED-TV All rights reserved. The Black Panthers condemnations of injustice, oppression and brutality in the late 60s and early 70s reverberate again in one city after another. The film sparked the No. YOU KNOW, WE WANTED TO GIVE THAT IDEA TO PEOPLE SO THEY COULD, YOU KNOW, SEE FOR THEMSELVES. Search for other works by this author on: You do not currently have access to this article. T3Media Because of a quirk in California law, the men were able to carry loaded weapons openly. Third World Newsreel Lead Supporters YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE LESSONS -- IT'S FUNNY YOU SHOULD MENTION ALL THAT BECAUSE THAT WAS GOING TO BE ONE OF MY BIG QUESTIONS, ONE OF MY BIG POINTS AND YOU JUMPED RIGHT TO IT, BUT THE OTHER BIG LESSON I THINK THAT IS OFTEN FORGOTTEN IS TO NEVER UNDERESTIMATE HOW MUCH THE POWERS THAT BE, THE STATE, WILL USE ITS POWER --. Old Chapel Road. Courtesy of Unichappel Music, Inc. (BMI) David Fenton Host an Exhibition, Lead Supporters Shamess photographsvintage and contemporary gelatin-silver printsare displayed thematically and loosely follow the timeline of the Panthers rise and most active periods of operation. Not long after that Hampton was dead, murdered in his bed by Chicago police. They had no background checks that they could do on people, so they had this kind of open-door policy: If you wanted to join the Panthers, they wanted you to be part of it. You Save: $3.75 (15%) We only immortalize whatwe think is necessary to immortalize. The Black Panthers captured the political imagination of young blacks. This article is also available for rental through DeepDyve. Getty Images Aired on June 10, 2020.. The Black Panther Party is simply the vanguard of the revolution, he declared. Critical Past I HADN'T EVEN NOTICED THAT YOU DIDN'T HAVE A NARRATOR BEFORE. Click the account icon in the top right to: Oxford Academic is home to a wide variety of products. But, the world the Panthers imaginedis yet to come. San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive Years after its first utterance, Newtons claim remains the most definitive statement regarding the ethos that guided the Panthers. The Party espoused a Marxist political stance, manifest in programs such as the Free Breakfast for Children Program and the Peoples Free Medical Clinics. The postwar capitalist boom had left out tens of millions of workers and the poor, and the poverty rate remained . Partners The Panther Party was riddled with informants. Stephen Shames, Memorial mural for Jonathan Jackson, who was killed on August 7, 1970, during an attempt to kidnap California Superior Court judge Harold Haley and three others to exchange for the freedom of his brother, George Jackson, Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts, 1970Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. Shot down like a common animal, he died a warrior for Black Liberation. Carolyn Turner, VOA NEWS, Washington. I GOT TO WATCH THE FILM FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN PREPARATION FOR THIS INTERVIEW AND THIS TIME BECAUSE I KNOW THE CONTENT SO WELL I WAS ABLE TO FOCUS ON THE CRAFT AND IT'S JUST MASTERFUL. Editor's note: Back in February, we held an event with filmmaker Stanley Nelson to talk about his now Emmy-nominated film, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. Dir. Claudia Katayanagi If you believe you should have access to that content, please contact your librarian. Getty Images International / BBC Worldwide Their message of unqualified resistance to racism, armed self-defense and anti-capitalist revolutionary politics galvanized the creation of chapters of the Party in nearly every city and state of the US. YOU DON'T SEE A LOT OF DONALD TRUMP RIGHT NOW. YOU KNOW, THE PANTHERS WAS NOT -- WERE NOT ALL HUEY NEWTON AND, YOU KNOW, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER AND BOBBY SEALE AND ELAINE BROWN, THEY WERE ALSO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO JOINED THE PANTHERS, YOU KNOW, SO WE WANTED TO SAY WHY DID YOU JOIN THE PANTHERS? Bianca Dang I THINK SO MANY TIMES, YOU KNOW, THESE MOVEMENTS ARE MOMENTS IN HISTORY COME DOWN TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, THIS MYTH AND WE FORGET THE REALITY. Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the diverse group of voices of the people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, and Black Panthers who remained loyal to the party and those who left it. Sacramento Bee/ZUMAPRESS Documentary Fortnight (Feb 13 - 28, 2015): http://bit.ly/1LfavqN-"The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" is the first feature-length documentary to . Stanley's documentary, "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution," is streaming on PBS and also re-airing this week on Independent Lens on Thirteen and WLIW. And for Newton, the revolution would belong to the people. Established on the heels of the civil rights movement, the Panthers were a political party committed to dismantling antiblack structures and policies that had afflicted black people for centuries. All rights administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. We see traces of their actions in the interventions of the Black Lives Matter movement, asserting the humanity of black people in the face of incessant state-sanctioned violence, or in the vision of The Black School, a new experimental art school which foregrounds radical black politics and socially engaged art as methodology for educating students. Reggie Travis Hicks We want nonviolence just like Martin Luther King.Nonviolence on the part of who?To sit and watch ourselves be slaughtered like our brother?We must defend ourselves.By any means necessary. A personal account can be used to get email alerts, save searches, purchase content, and activate subscriptions. How Many Ukrainian Refugees Will Return Home? Efootage The underrepresentation of African Americans in city governments, high unemployment, and low-wage employment contributed significantly to urban black youth disillusionment with the system. The black lives matter movement later expanded out of the Missouri heartland and a sense of dj vu has created questions about the future success of this newest movement among black youth. Black lives matter. Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution . Perhaps this missed opportunity is a consequence of hindsight. Their causes, with slogans like power to the people and creating a better world are relevant again in an era that has seen the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and tense relations between African American communities and the police. Terms of Use. I have no illusions about a postracial society that supposedly came into being after Barack Obama became President I am not afraid to say that at this time, on this day, on this earth, an organization similar to the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense is still necessary.. If you see Sign in through society site in the sign in pane within a journal: If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society. YOU KNOW, THIS HE HAD A BUNCH OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS AND, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY WERE ALIGNED IN MANY WAYS WITH THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT AND THEY WEREN'T OUT THERE BY THEMSELVES, THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE TO THE PANTHERS THAN BLACK RADICALISM AND VIOLENCE. Pat Thomas While serving an indeterminate sentence for the armed robbery of a gas station in 1961, Jackson became involved in revolutionary activity and co-founded the prison gang Black Guerrilla Family.. "For God's sake," the group sings, "why dontcha give more power to the people?" The Afro-clad quartet deliver their message of protest with a funky groove, a technique director Stanley Nelson adopts for this documentary. The Black Panther Party was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966. Stephen Shames, Black Panther co-founders Bobby Seale & Huey Newton pose in Hueys penthouse apartment, Oakland, California, 1971Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. Kathleen Cleaver, Voice-Over Actors The Black. THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOUGHT RACIAL OPPRESSION IN THE LATE 1960s AND '70s SERVING AS A CATALYST FOR SOCIETAL CHANGE WHILE ALSO AT TIMES RESORTING TO VIOLENCE. Shames accesses the intimacies of the Partys interior world, and his photographs evoke a tenderness that is hard to shake. ANYTHING THAT THEY COULD DO TO CAUSE DISSENSION IN THE RANKS. Hiroji Kubota/ Magnum Photos Help bring programs like Independent Lens to your PBS station. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 92% rating based on 36 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/10. 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