The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service was a weekly periodical with national and international distribution. It was published for 13 years, starting in 1967, and was sometimes called the Black Panther Black Community News Service or the Black Panther Community News Service. In its heyday, the Party sold several hundred thousand copies of the newspaper per week.

Although you can only access the front and back covers digitally, we have the entire papers physically preserved in the archives. Please schedule a research visit to access the papers in their entirety. Unfortunately, at this time we do not have the resources to scan articles / individual issues by demand.

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