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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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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 [July 25, 1970] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [July 25, 1970]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 7/25/1970Volume Number: Vol. 4-3 July 25Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Political Prisoners Within the Confines of USA Concentration Camps
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [June 20, 1970] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [June 20, 1970]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 6/20/1970Volume Number: Vol. 4-29 June 20Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The Black Panther Party Calls for a Mass Rally and National Press Conference to Announce Date and Place of Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention. Also, The Shackling like a Slave of Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale is like the Reincarnation of Dred Scott 1857. This Brazen Violation of Bobby Seale's Constitutional Rights Exposes Without a Doubt that Black People have No Rights that the Racist Oppressor is Bound to Respect.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Aug 21, 1970] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Aug 21, 1970]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 8/21/1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-9 August 21Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The People of Winston-Salem Demand a Constitution That Guarantees the Right to Live. Also Inside: A Message from the Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton to the Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, Jury to Reach Verdict in Lonnie McLucas Trial, 72 Year Old Man Murdered by Pigs in Winston-Salem, Open Letter from the Soledad 12.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Sep 19, 1970] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Sep 19, 1970]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 9/19/1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-12Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention. Also Inside: A Family Inside Ugly America, North Korea/South Korea, Denmark Vesey, San Quentin Prisoners Kidnapped, The Black Panther Party A Force Against U.S. Imperialism by William Patterson, Communist Party, U.S.A. and Minister Huey Newton's Reply to William Patterson's Article.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Dec 19, 1970] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Dec 19, 1970]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 12/19/1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-25Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Guerrilla War in the U.S.A. Also Inside: Racist Slumlord Killed in Richmond, California Trying to Kill Tenant, Reese Drug Store New Haven, Conn. Site of Fascist Brutality Against the People, White Racist Attack Husband and Wide (Winston-Salem), Brooklyn pigs Brutalize Railroad Brother Samuel Smith, Decent Housing - A Mockery in New Haven, Connecticut!, Children Brutalized by Racist Principal in Winston- Salem, NC., Press Release! United Front of Cairo Information Service, Rent a Pig in the Hunters Point Area (California), The Case of Irving Ochika Young Proves Once Again That Justice is Ignored, Enemies of the People, Negro Spokesman in Berkeley Distorts Community Control of Police Initiative, An open Letter to High School Students - from Katara, NY, 21 (Panther 21), Attention-- Intellectuals and Artists, Black Man Shot Down by Avaricious Businessman, We Can't Wait Another Day, Delegates to the R.P.C.C. Denied Passage on Airlines, Mis-Education, Communique on Police Raids, On Folsom Prison Strike, Report on the Trial of Chairman Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins, Pigs Block Visiting Privileges of Political Prisoner Lonnie McLucas,A Brother is Dying in the Black Community of the USA Because of Apathy; It's the Same as if You Were in the Black Community of South Africa, Carbondale, Illinois, Gene Roberts- Wanted by the People for Conspiracy to Railroad the New York panther 21, Charges Dropped on Marine in Hand Grenade Case, Report on NY 21 Trial: Pig Gene Robert's Testimony Full of Contradictions, Lumumba and Kinshasa of the New York 21 Indicted for New York Prison Revolt, The Masses Must Never Allow Angela Davis to be Extradited, In Defense of Jose Wilson.