''All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party and Beyond'' is a 1996 documentary directed by Lee Lew-Lee. The film chronicles the history of the

Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party (BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, Califo ...

, leadership, and members. The film also briefly chronicles the history of the

American Indian Movement The American Indian Movement (AIM) is a Native American grassroots movement which was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1968, initially centered in urban areas in order to address systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police ...

and

Black Liberation Army The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was a far-left, black nationalist, underground Black Power revolutionary paramilitary organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981. Composed of former Black Panthers (BPP) and Republic of Ne ...

. The film covers assassinations and methods used to divide, destroy, and imprison key figures within the party. It is composed primarily of archival footage and interviews of former organization members and government agents. The documentary was broadcast in 24 countries on 12 networks in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia between 1997 and 2000.

Interviewees

Members of Black Power organizations

Mumia Abu-Jamal Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. While on death r ...

- member of the

, 1969–1971 * Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad - member of the Black Panther Party, 1968–1971 * Sofiya Alston Bukhari - member of the Black Panther Party, 1969–1971 and

, 1972–1974 *

Kathleen Cleaver Kathleen Neal Cleaver (born May 13, 1945) is an American law professor and activist, known for her involvement with the Black Power movement and the Black Panther Party, a political and revolutionary. Early life Juette Kathleen Neal was born ...

- central committee member of the Black Panther Party, 1967–1971 *

Emory Douglas Emory Douglas (born May 24, 1943) is an American graphic artist. He was a member of the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the Party disbanded in the 1980s. As a r''evolutionary artist'' and the ''Minister of Culture'' for the Black Panther Part ...

- central committee member of the Black Panther Party, 1967–1972 * George Edwards - member of the Black Panther Party, 1969–1974 * Herman Ferguson - member of

Republic of New Afrika The Republic of New Afrika (RNA), founded in 1968 as the Republic of New Africa (RNA), is a black nationalist organization and black separatist movement in the United States popularized by black militant groups. The larger New Afrika movement ...

* Ronald Freeman - member of the Black Panther Party, 1968–1971 * Ali Bey Hassan - member of the Black Panther Party, 1968–1971 and Black Liberation Army, 1971–1973 * Kim Holder - member of the Black Panther Party, 1969–1971 * Mark Holder - member of the Black Panther Party, 1969–1971 and Black Liberation Army, 1971–1972 * Michael McCarty - member of the Black Panther Party, 1968–1971 and

acupuncture Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body. Acupuncture is a pseudoscience; the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientifi ...

doctor * Thomas McCreary - member of the Black Panther Party, 1968–1971 * Somaya Moore - member of the Black Panther Party, 1969–1971 *

Bobby Seale Robert George Seale (born October 22, 1936) is an American political activist and author. Seale is widely known for co-founding the Black Panther Party with fellow activist Huey P. Newton. Founded as the "Black Panther Party for Self-Defense", ...

- co-founder and chairman of the Black Panther Party, 1966–1974 *

Mutulu Shakur Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams; August 8, 1950) is an American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army, sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which a guar ...

- member of the Black Liberation Army and acupuncture doctor * Ron Wilkins - vice chairman of the

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced ) was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segrega ...

, 1968–1969

Government agents

Philip Agee Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (; January 19, 1935 – January 7, 2008)Will Weissert"Ex-CIA Agent Philip Agee Dead in Cuba" Associated Press (sfgate.com), January 9, 2008. was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer of t ...

Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...

officer, 1958–1969 *

Ramsey Clark William Ramsey Clark (December 18, 1927 – April 9, 2021) was an American lawyer, activist, and federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presi ...

US Attorney General The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the p ...

, 1965–1968 *

M. Wesley Swearingen Mont Wesley Swearingen (May 20, 1927 Steubenville, Ohio - November 13, 2019 Hemet, California) was an FBI Special Agent from 1951 to 1977. He wrote two books drawn from his experience: ''FBI Secrets'' (1995), and ''To Kill a President''(2008), an ex ...

- special agent of the

Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, ...

, 1950–1977 * William Turner - special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1950–1961

Others

Ward Churchill Ward LeRoy Churchill (born 1947) is an American author and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1990 until 2007.

- member of the

* Alex Constantine - private researcher *

Donald Freed Donald Freed (born May 13, 1932) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, historian, teacher and activist. According to Freed's friend and colleague, the late Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, "(Freed) is a writer of blazing imagination, c ...

- private researcher * John Judge - private investigator of assassinations *

Yuri Kochiyama was an American civil rights activist. Influenced by her Japanese-American family's experience in an American internment camp, her association with Malcolm X, and her Maoist beliefs, she advocated for many causes, including black separatism, t ...

- Asian-American activist, friend of Malcolm X *

Sarah McClendon Sarah Newcomb McClendon (July 8, 1910 – January 8, 2003) was a long-time White House reporter who covered presidential politics for a half century. McClendon founded her own freelance news service as a single mother in the post-World Wa ...

- member of the

White House press corps The White House press corps is the group of journalists, correspondents, and members of the media usually assigned to the White House in Washington, D.C., to cover the president of the United States, White House events, and news briefings. Its o ...

, 1931–1996 * Jim McCluskey - founder of

Centurion Ministries Centurion (formerly Centurion Ministries) is a non-profit organization located in Princeton, New Jersey, with a mission to exonerate innocent individuals who have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to life sentences or death. Centurion takes on ...

* Charles Mingus III - artist * Nobuko Miyamoto - Japanese-American activist *

Gordon Parks Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particu ...

- photo journalist of ''

Life Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energ ...

'' magazine, 1949–1971 *

Leonard Peltier Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and militant member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who, following a controversial trial, was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two Fed ...

- member of the American Indian Movement * Jim Vander Wal - private researcher

Awards

* Best Historical Documentary, National Black Programming Consortium (ITVS/PBS) 1998 * Black Filmworks Award,

Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc. (BFHFI), was founded in 1974, in Oakland, California. It supported and promoted black filmmaking, and preserved the contributions by African-American artists both before and behind the camera. It also sponso ...

1998 * Best Director, Finalist, Gordon Parks Award (MTV/ IFP) 1998 * Critic's Award, Southern Film Festival Memphis Black Writer's Conference 1999 * Paul Robeson Award for Excellence in Independent Filmmaking, The Newark Film Festival (Mobil Oil / Newark Museum) 1997 * Robert Townsend Tenacity Award, Roy W. Dean Awards, 1997 * Paul Robeson Grant Award, Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, 1997 * The Windy City International Documentary Festival (Columbia College, Chicago), 1997 * The Grand Prize, Roy W. Dean Awards, 1995

References

External links

* * {{Black Panther Party 1996 documentary films 1996 films American documentary films Documentary films about the Black Panther Party Black Power Documentary films about African Americans 1990s English-language films 1990s American films

Interviewees

Members of Black Power organizations

Government agents

Others

Awards

See also

References

Further reading

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