BLACK PANTHER Definition & Meaning

Black Panther

[blak pan-ther]

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noun

a member of a militant African American organization Black Panther party active in the 1960s and early 1970s, formed to work for the advancement of the rights of Black people, often by radical means.

Black Panther

noun

(in the US) a member of a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people

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Origin of Black Panther¹

First recorded in 1960–65; the party was founded in Oakland, California, by political activists Huey P. Newton (1942–89) and Bobby Seale (born 1936), who modeled it on the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, an activist group in Alabama that had adopted a black panther as its symbol

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Mr Coogler, who also made Black Panther and Creed, said it was his Uncle James, a Mississippi native who loved Delta Blues, who helped inspire the film.

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Fred Hampton was a great young leader of the Black Panther Party, murdered with the collusion of the FBI and Chicago police.

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Consider, for example, the way “Black Panther” made Michael B. Jordan’s Erik Killmonger as enthralling as he was despicable by showing us that he wasn’t born evil.

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Ms Carter has worked with filmmaker Spike Lee and on the Black Panther movie franchise to create some modern pop cultural cues for the black dandy.

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Elsewhere, Black Panther star Letitia Wright will appear in The Story, a new play by US writer Tracey Scott Wilson about an ambitious black journalist who defies her editor to pursue an incendiary lead.

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