Ammos Controversial "Black Panther Table Book"

Ammo books will be releasing a Black Panthers table book, that will feature of over 140 unreleased flicks, just like the Huey P. Newton pic above that was snapped of the leader while imprisioned. It's expected 2 cause much controversy-NOW THATS WHATS UP!! Kathleen Cleaver, wife of Eldridge and a coordinator of the "Free Huey" movement. In the ’60s, Life magazine had photographer Howard L. Bingham on what he calls “riot retainer.” He cut his teeth shooting the destruction of his own South Central L.A. neighborhood. He documented MLK’s funeral and the ’68 convention in Chicago. That same year, Life sent him to Oakland to live among a mysterious group of militant radicals, the Black Panther Party. Bingham and journalist Gilbert Moore—one of Life’s two black reporters—spent months earning the Panthers’ trust, only to have the magazine kill the story. “I had no intention of writing a puff piece, trying to make them come off like Boy Scouts in leather,” writes Moore. And so the candid, intimate photos — of Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver, a jailed Huey Newton, and Bobby Seale—were never published. GQ

EMORY DOUGLAS : BLACK PANTHER MAGAZINE ARTIST

In 1967, Emory Douglas met Black Panther co-founders Bobby Seale and Huey Newton at a student organized event at San Francisco State for which Douglas had done the publicity artwork. After expressing the desire to get involved with the Black Panther cause, Douglas was invited to meet with Seale and Newton. It was at this meeting that the first issue of The Black Panther magazine was the thought that created the print. Douglas, seeing the only available materials to be marker and a typewriter, he saw fit and added to the production of the Black Panther Magazine..then, it was born!! “The art reflected the transitions the Party went through, that inner process . .visually, from militant self defense to a more politically engaged approach,” says Douglas . It is a testament to the power of art for social change. Undeniably relevant in both today’s domestic and global political climate, Douglas’ legacy is one of unwavering determination and passion for social justice. "ALL POWER 2 THE PEOPLE!!"