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Welcome to the Freedom Archives' Digital Search Engine.The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements. We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings. Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements.

Black Panther Party Community News Service

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.


*All the art works are the right of the artists who created them. They are to be used for personal research purposes only and should not be reproduced for any other purpose without permission from the artist(s).

Documents

The Black Panther Black Community News Service [March 4, 1972] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [March 4, 1972]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 3/4/1972Volume Number: Vol. 7-28Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Welcome Home, Angela Davis
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [March 11, 1972] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [March 11, 1972]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 3/11/1972Volume Number: Vol. 7-29Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Angela Davis, A Black Woman in the Liberation Struggle: Part 2 of a Conversation with Angela Davis
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Apr 22, 1972] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Apr 22, 1972]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 4/22/1972Volume Number: Vol. 8-5Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: No Eviction, Free Repairs- If You Were Your Own Landlord- Berkeley Residents Demand Community Control of Rents; Progressive Americans, Led by Panthers, Return from China Also Inside: 20,000 Blacks Vote to Control Hospital: Winston-Salem Black Community Unites to Keep Hospital Facility (Reynolds Memorial Hospital), Brother Barbee Comments on Survival Conference, South Africa is a State in the Union: Chairman Bobby Seale Joins Demonstrators Against U.S. Investments in Southern Africa, Revolution and The White "Left" in America, Black People and the Republican Convention, 1972, Soledad Prison Killed its Own to Get Comrade Hugo: State Tries to Convict Hugo Pinell of Murder with a Toothbrush, Pig Fantasies Used to Convict Angela, Bolivian "Niggers": U.S. Style Racism and Capitalism in Bolivia.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [June 10, 1972] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [June 10, 1972]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 6/10/1972Volume Number: Vol. 8-12Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Free Angela! Free All of Us! Angela Davis Finally Acquitted of False Charges
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [July 15, 1972] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [July 15, 1972]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 7/15/1972Volume Number: Vol. 8-17Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Are You getting Your 2 Hours Leave With Pay? Black Panther Party Exposes California Employees Negligence in Giving Voting Time to Workers. Also Inside: A Lifetime of Suffering -- At Three Years old: Three Year old Jamal Hughley in Constant Pain from Incorrect Setting of a 31/2" steel plate in his Head, "They Told Me I Had to be Sterilized of Die": Racist Doctors Try to Give Black Panther Party Comrade Genocidal Hysterectomy, Can The Poor Afford Poverty Programs? By Lloyd Barbee, Congressional Black Caucus Exposed Government Crimes, We Are All Against the War! Over 100 Prominent People Protest Vietnam War Outside Senate Chambers, The Black Panther Party Supports Senior Power!, Workers Strike to Cure Kaiser Hospital, Criticism for Angela from Third World News.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Sep 2, 1972] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Sep 2, 1972]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 9/2/1972Volume Number: Vol. 8-24Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Olympics 1972- Racist Rhodesia Ousted. Worldwide Black Protest Expels Rhodesia from Olympic Games Also Inside: Oakland - A Base of Operation! Part VI (panthers on Black voter registration in Oakland) , "NO COMMENT": Black Reporter Earl Caldwell Honored for Refusing to Testify Against David Hilliard, Come Home Angela, "We Have To Attend To Our People": An interview with Comrade Huey P. Newton,