The Huey P. Newton Reader

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Beginning with his founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966, Huey P. Newton set the political stage for events that would quickly place him and the Panthers at the forefront of the African American liberation movement for the next twenty years. The first comprehensive collection of Newton's writings includes now-classic texts ranging in topics from the formation of the Black Panthers, Vietnam, and the feminist movement, to never-before-published writings from the archives including articles on Nixon, George Jackson, and the only written account of Newton's Cuban exile.

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"In our messy situation where (whatever remains of) the radical Left is constantly sabotaging itself with its Politically Correct moralism, a Huey Newton reader is needed like daily bread: a remainder of a time half a century ago when incisive philosophical thinking was immediately linked to practical political engagement. Newton was a Communist who saw the struggle for decolonization as outdated, a materialist keeping an eye open for extrasensory perception Our task is not to return to Newton but to repeat his gesture in todays predicament. The future of the American radical Left will be Newtonianor there will be none!" Slavoj Zizek

"Huey Newton was a hero who brought life blood into a dream of freedom for all of us runaway slaves."Elaine Brown, author of A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

Author Bio

David Hillard is a founding member and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party. He is the author of This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party and currently serves as executive director of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation. Donald Weise is the editor of Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual African-American. He lives in San Francisco