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Can a Comic Book Contain the Drama and Heat of Activism?
From “The Black Panther Party”
By Ed Park
Feb. 2, 2021
“Writing this book broke my heart,” David F. Walker admits in the afterword to his ambitious and informative graphic history
THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY (Ten Speed, 183 pp., $19.99), crisply illustrated by Marcus Kwame Anderson. Founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was the most famous exponent of the Black Power movement. Its Ten Point Program (reproduced in full in these pages) was a forceful manifesto demanding “land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace” for the Black community. In the immediate wake of the horrific killings of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, Walker notes that “every single concern” the Panthers addressed from police brutality to reparations “is still relevant.” ....

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