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The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs

The Black Panther Party represents Black Panther Party members' coordinated responses over the last four decades to the failure of city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of their respective communities. The Party pioneered free social service programs that are now in the mainstream of American life.
The Party's Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation, operated with Oakland's Children's Hospital, was among the nation's first such testing programs. Its Free Breakfast Program served as a model for national programs. Other initiatives included free clinics, grocery giveaways, school and education programs, senior programs, and legal aid programs.
Published here for the first time in book form, The Black Panther Party makes the case that the programs’ methods are viable models for addressing the persistent, basic social injustices and economic problems of today's American cities and suburbs.

The Huey P. Newton Foundation was co-founded in 1993 in Oakland, California, by David Hilliard to honor the legacy of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton, who had been killed four years earlier. A member of the Black Liberation Movement, Hilliard was one of the founders of the Black Panther Party. He is author, coauthor, or editor of eight additional books, including Huey, Spirit of the Panther and The Huey P. Newton Reader. He is writing or editing other books, including The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service 1967-1980 and The History of the Black Panther Party.

David Hilliard, a founding member and Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, and an authority on the life, legacy, and intellectual history of Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton. He is author of, This Side of Glory, Huey, and The Black Panther. He teaches at Merritt College, ***y College, and New College, and lectures frequently throughout the United States. He was an advisor on the feature film, "Panther," and on the Spike Lee-produced, "A Huey P. Newton Story."

Thursday, May 22, 2008, 7 pm

Jonah Raskin discussing The Radical Jack London Writings on War and Revolution Edited and with an Introduction by Jonah Raskin published by University of California Press "Big things are happening secretly all around," says Jack London's prescient hero Ernest Everhard in the 1908 novel The Iron Heel, excerpted in this timely anthology of London's writings about war and revolution. Besides illuminating his surprising literary range, The Radical Jack London establishes the iconic American author as both a product of his own era and a significant voice for ours. The book features works by London that have been unavailable for decades. In his insightful introduction, editor Jonah Raskin lays out the social, economic, and political contexts for London's polemical writings and shows London to be America's leading revolutionary writer at the turn of the twentieth century. Jack London (1876-1916) was the author of The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea-Wolf (1904), and the prophetic novel The Iron Heel (1908), among some fifty books. Jonah Raskin  at Sonoma State University and produces the website radicaljacklondon.com. Jonah Raskin lives and works in Northern California, not far from Jack London’s stomping grounds in Glen Ellen. He has taught about London's life and his writings at Sonoma State University, where Raskin is Chair of Communications and regularly teaches journalism, memoir writing, and communication law. For nearly two decades, he was a book reviewer for The San Francisco Chronicle, and a cultural critic for The Santa Rosa Press Democrat. In addition to The Radical Jack London, he has published eight other books, including For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman, American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and the Making of the Beat Generation, and My Search for B. Traven, which in 2007 was translated into French and published in France. Sunday, May 25, 5 pm A celebration for the release of Tau by Philip Lamantia and Journey to the End by John Hoffman Pocket Poet Series No. 59 published by City Lights Books hosted by editor and local poet Garrett Caples (with guests to be announced) “You will probably be our greatest living poet since Whitman.”—Henry Miller, letter to Philip Lamantia, 1/26/55 The latest installment of the Pocket Poets Series presents two long-lost books from the classic Beat period. Tau is Philip Lamantia's mystical second collection of poems, slated for publication in 1955 but suppressed by the poet due to his evolving religious beliefs. Mysterious and austere, the poems of Tau are an essential addition to Lamantia's published work, documenting the period between his teenage surrealist debut Erotic Poems (1946) and the religious poems of Ekstasis (1959), also the period of his closest association with Kenneth Rexroth. Later in 1955, when he participated in the 6 Gallery reading where Allen Ginsberg debuted"Howl," Lamantia read none of his own work, instead reading the poems of his best friend, John Hoffman (1928-1952), a legendary Beat poet who died of unknown causes in Mexico at age 24. An archetype of the Beat-era hipster—tall, lean, goateed, and bespectacled—Hoffman is depicted along with Lamantia and others in "Howl," as well as in Kerouac's The Dharma Bums (1958). Yet despite its literary and historical importance, Hoffman's work has never before been published. Journey to the End makes available for the first time all of Hoffman's surviving poems, an event for scholars and fans of Beat literature. Presented together in a single volume, Tau and Journey to the End are two of the most significant recent additions to the Beat canon. The volume also includes Lamantia's commentary on his friend's life and work, poems by Lamantia dedicated to Hoffman, and detailed biographical notes on both poets. Praise for Tau and Journey to the End: “Here are Philip Lamantia’s light-scattering jewels of the Fifties!” —Michael McClure, author of Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems “The rediscovery of Tau is the literary equivalent of finding lost treasure. Alchemical gold––blood of pure imagination––courses through these lines by the magus of American poetry.” —Andrew Joron, author of The Cry at Zero: Selected Prose City Lights Books · 261 Columbus Ave. · San Francisco · CA · 94133 Forward email This email was sent to clifordharry@gmail.com, by City Lights Books. Update your profile |Instant removal with Safe***™ | Privacy Policy. Email Marketing by   Back to newsletter list © 2007 - The Code Kitchen for interface design and text. Newsletter content remains the copyright of the respective publishers. Contact: info@newsletterarchive.org