Daddy Green's Pizza

Erykah Badu and her daughter, Mars.

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Rhodesian Refugees in a Camp Zambia, 1978 by Peter Marlow

MLK funeral street scene with National Guard, Atlanta, Georgia, Burk Uzzle, 1968

Thanks to collector Mike Gruber.

Emory Douglas joined the BPP in 1967 and served as Minister of Culture, designing artwork that became potent symbols of the movement. Douglas originally helped with the layout of the Black Panthers’ newspaper, and realised that art could enhance their campaigns and reach the masses.

“I am a man.” - On February 12, 1968, Memphis sanitation workers, the majority of whom were Black, went on strike demanding recognition for their union, better wages, and safer working conditions after two trash handlers were killed by a malfunctioning garbage truck. The strike gained national attention and dragged on into March. Striking workers carried copies of a poster declaring “I AM A MAN,” a statement that recalled a question abolitionists posed more than 100 years earlier, “Am I not a man and a brother?”