The Black Panther (newspaper)

The Black Panther
Front page for the first issue on April 25, 1967
FormatTabloid
Founder(s)
PublisherBlack Panther Party
FoundedApril 25, 1967 (1967-04-25)
Political alignment
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publicationSeptember 16, 1980 (1980-09-16)
HeadquartersOakland, California
CountryUnited States
ISSN0523-7238
OCLC number32411926

The Black Panther (also called The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, Black Panther Black Community News Service, and Black Community News Service) was the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party. It began as a four-page newsletter in Oakland, California, in 1967, and was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. It was the main publication of the Party and was soon sold in several large cities across the United States, as well as having an international readership. The newspaper distributed information about the party's activities, and expressed through articles the ideology of the Black Panther Party, focusing on both international revolutions as inspiration and contemporary racial struggles of African Americans across the United States. It remained in circulation until the dissolution of the Party in 1980.