Nov 6 2008, hosted at the LSE. MXM helped to facilitate this event as it was part of a tour that we hosted at the time with Emory Douglas and BPP archivist Billy X Jennings.
Emory Douglas, ex Minister of Culture for the Black Panther party spoke about the history behind the art of the party, and take a look at some more recent works. Emory Douglas was born May 24th, 1943 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Douglas attended City College of San Francisco where he majored in commercial art. He was politically involved as Revolutionary Artist and then Minister of Culture for the Black Panther party in Oakland, CA from February, 1967 until its discontinuance in the Early 1980's. Douglas's art was alway...