Black Panther Party - The Black Panthers: Portraits From an Unfinished Revolution

The Black Panthers: Portraits From an Unfinished Revolution
Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams (eds)
Nation Books
2016
272 pp

The Black Panthers: Portraits From an Unfinished Revolution features photos of members of the Black Panther Party's rank and file. The subjects are profiled with a biography describing their post-Panthers work, and a brief interview where the subject describes the circumstances of their joining the party and the work they did as Panthers. Many of the former Panthers speak about the party's community work: their food programs and medical services, like the Winston-Salem NC Black Panther ambulance service. Not surprisingly, after the party's collapse, many of the Panthers went into community development, social work, and education.

The book features a couple of higher profile Panthers; Emory Douglas, the primary illustrator of the Black Panther newspaper, and some of the participants in the better known prison and court cases such as the Angola 3 and the Panther 21.