THIS PIECE IS SYMBOLIC OF THE BLACK PANTHER MOVEMENT DURING THE 60S AND 70S. THE WOMAN IN THE FOREGROUND IS MS. ELAINE BROWN, WHO IS AN ICONIC FIGURE, KNOW FOR BEING THE HIGHEST RANKED WOMAN IN THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE BLACK PANTHERS PROMOTED PROTECTION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOODS FROM POLICE BRUTALITY. THEY WERE REALLY REVOLUTIONIST WHOSE POSITIONS WILL ALWAYS REMAIN SIGNIFICANT IN BLACK CULTURE.
THIS PIECE IS SYMBOLIC OF HISTORICAL FIGURE, HUEY NEWTON, FOUNDER OF THE BLACK PANTHERS. THE SUBJECT MEDIA DEALS WITH HIS CONTROVERSIAL ARREST AND HOW UNJUST IS WAS. IRONICALLY, AS THE BLACK PANTHERS FOUGHT FOR PROTECTION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOODS AND FREEDOM OF POLICE BRUTALITY, THEIR LEADER FACED THAT SAME FATE. IT'S IMPORTANT REMEMBER THE DYNAMIC THAT THE BLACK PANTHERS STOOD FOR. EVEN THOUGH THEIR LEADER WAS ABSENT, THE BLACK PANTHERS DID NOT GIVE UP HOPE. "YOU CAN JAIL THE REVOLUTIONIST, BUT YOU CANNOT JAIL THE REVOLUTION."
