BLACK PANTHER: THE REVOLUTIONARY ART OF EMORY DOUGLAS

Formed in the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, the Black Panther Party sounded a defiant cry for an end to the institutionalized subjugation of African Americans. The Black Panther newspaper was founded to articulate the party’s message, and artist Emory Douglas became the paper’s art director and later the party’s minister of culture. Douglas’s artistic talents and experience proved a powerful combination: his striking collages of photographs and his own drawings combined to create some of the era’s most iconic images.