Black Is Beautiful -
Panther Chant from The Black Panther Party for Self Defense
Black is Beautiful
Black is Beautiful
(2x)
The revolution has come (clap clap)
We have only begun
The revolution is here
We must conquer our fear
They got us against the wall
We must remember the call
It's time to take it all back
We are Young, Gifted, and Black
Black is Beautiful
Black is Beautiful
(2x)
We are taking a stand
We got a list of demands
We've started making our plans
We want you to understand
No more Brothers in jail
Free em all
No more Sistas in jail
free em all
No more drugs in our community
Free em all
No more pigs in our community
Free em all
No more schooling to fail
Free em all
No more living in hell
Free em all
The revolution has come
We have only begun
What's the call?
Free em all free em all
What's the call?
Free em all! (clap, clap)
(2x)
Black is beautiful
Set our warriors free
Free em all.
Black is beautiful
Gotta be what We're born to be
(2x)
I'm an African
In America (4x)
No matter where you come from if your black as long as your black you are an African
(4x)
Black is beautiful
Black is Beautiful
(2x)
Free em all!
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense
10 Point Plan
We want freedom.
We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.
We want full employment for our people.
We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black Community.
We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.
We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society.
We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.
We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.
We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people.
We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.
We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.
Facts:The Black Panther Party for Self Defense 10-Point Program was written by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 and were separated into “What We Want Now!” and “What We Believe.”
Black is Beautiful started from the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Negritude movement of the 1930s that argued for the importance of Pan-Africanism.
The term ‘Black is Beautiful’ popularized in the 60s in contradiction to the notion that Black features - skin, hair, facial features - were ugly and undesirable.
Kwame Brathwaite, African-American photojournalist, is known for capturing photographs that helped encourage the Black is Beautiful movement.
Questions:
What is the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense?
Who is Kwame Braithwaite?
Look up “Black” in the dictionary.
Look up “beautiful” in the dictionary.
Write down your thoughts.
Do you think Black is beautiful?
Why or why not?
What does it mean to be Pan-African?
Look at the Black Panther Party 10 point plan.
Which one stands out to you most?
Why?
Vocabulary: Black, Beautiful, Revolution, Conquer, Freedom, Warrior