Seven Facts About the Black Panther Party Amid Beyoncé Super Bowl Tribute

The part-socialist, part-black nationalist Black Panther Party is headline news again, thanks to Beyonce’s Super Bowl 50 halftime show performance of her song “Formation,”–“a big wet kiss to Black Lives Matter” that pays tribute to the 1960s militant group.

1. The Black Panther Party’s “Platform and Program” called for guaranteed housing, income, and jobs for black people

2. The Black Panther Party was against capitalism and supported socialism

3. The Black Panther Party wanted “all black men to be exempt from military service”

4. The Black Panther Party supported the Second Amendment as a means to “end police brutality in our black community”

5. The Black Panther Party called for “freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.”

6. In its “Ten-Point Program,” The Black Panther Party sought to overthrow the U.S. government.

7. The Black Panther Party implored its members not to “ill-treat” those whom they “take captive.”

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