However, despite its militant stance, the BPP also provided free breakfast for school children, sickle cell anemia screening, legal aid, and adult education. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.īecause of its practice of armed self-defense against police, as well as its Communistic and revolutionary elements, the BPP was frequently targeted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s COINTELPRO program as well as by state and local law enforcement groups.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 freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people.We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society.We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.We want an end to the robbery by the Capitalists of our Black Community.We want full employment for our people.We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. They compiled the responses and created the Ten Point Platform and Program that served as the foundation of the Black Panther Party. Newton and Seale canvassed their community asking residents about issues of concern. The BPP’s practice of armed self-defense was influenced by African American activist Robert Williams, who advocated this practice against anti-black aggression by the Ku Klux Klan in his book Negroes with Guns (1962). The BPP’s philosophy was influenced by the speeches of Malcolm X of the Nation of Islam, the teachings of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung of the Communist Party of China, and the anti-colonialist book The Wretched of the Earth ( Les Damnés de la Terre, 1961) by the Martiniquan psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. Launch your own "spaceship of the imagination" in this enlightening cosmic journey.Exhibits, Evidence and Other Records of the Investigative Section of the Internal Security Committee During the 79th through 94th Congresses Related to the Black Panther Partyīlack Panther Party Introduction, continued Learn & play in interactive 3D visualizations of the body, brain, heart, lungs, city, Earth, International Space Station, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, Virgo Galaxy Cluster, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, multiverse, micro-organisms, cells, virus, DNA, atoms, quarks, strings, & Planck scale, as well as cosmic calendar from Big Bang to present & map of the whole tree of life. Part VR simulation of the universe, part educational game & magic school bus-like adventure, Powers of 10 invites you to explore the wonders of our universe & probe its deepest mysteries in mind-blowing scientific visualizations generated by NASA datasets & CT/MRI scans, interactive art by IMC Lab artists & perception-shifting ideas of cosmic interconnectedness. Traverse all of spacetime on a beam of light & cosmic zoom across all orders of magnitude: from multiverse to string scale, from Big Bang, to human brain, to black hole. Powers of 10 is the latest VR app from The IMC Lab. Your mission: become one with the cosmos & unlock its greatest mysteries. Traverse spacetime & explore the cosmos - from multiverse to molecule, Big Bang to brain, evolution to electron.īe immersed in big data visualizations of NASA datasets, CT/fMRI medical imaging, 3D microscopy & more. Powers of 10 is an educational VR app & interactive simulation of the entire known universe at all scales. Fly across the cosmos - multiverse to molecule, brain to Big Bang - in this true origin story. Universe simulation meets magic school bus.
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