Black Panthers
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4.9
- proper noun
- /blæk ˈpænθərz/
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Panteras Negras
- The Black Panthers were formed in 1966 to challenge police brutality and promote civil rights.
- Black Panthers Party
And former chair of the Black Panther Party.
- And former chair of the Black Panther Party.
- Oakland is home of the Black Panthers, a lot of advocacy, rights movements.
- So it it was really COINTELPRO is really nasty, especially like with the American Indian movement and also the Black Panthers.
- And, and that plays into, I don't know, you know, Angela Davis, legendary Black Panther and, and activist for, you know, decades.
- Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, James Brown, Black Panther.
- But to tell you the honest truth, I and I, I have an adopt black daughter whose parents were Black Panthers.
- But to tell you the honest truth, I and I, I haven't adopted the black daughter whose parents were Black Panthers.
- And he goes on to have this incredible career really emerging as a strong opponent of black nationalism of the Black Panthers.
- Yeah, now we are we on some Black Panther shit on some real talk we created on we, we policing the police now tip it's called the Black Ops department.
Examples
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Albert Woodfox organized a chapter of the Black Panther Party in Angola Prison, then spent 44 years in solitary.
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Here was Huey P. Newton, a founder of the Black Panther Party, issuing the call to arms and appealing for support.
Academic text (2014) -
The Black Panther Party... ...was never intended to be... ...a military force.
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Well, what made the Black Panther Party unique was that it was independent of the Democratic Party.
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The decline of black power and of specific organizations, such as the Black Panthers, occurred by the early 1970s.
Academic text (2001) -
Oakland is home of the Black Panthers, a lot of advocacy, rights movements.
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Bobby Seale is the leader of the Black Panther Party.
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We are here to offer protection and help for all of those who need our help, because we, the Black Panthers, are against the war in Vietnam.
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With the printing of a "Ten-Point Platform," the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was officially founded on October 15, 1966.
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And that's what I felt the great strength of the Black Panther Party was its ideals and its youthful vigor, enthusiasm.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Black + Panthers
The words 'Black' and 'Panthers' only signal a racial term and an animal/name, but they do not convey that this is a specific militant political organization or its aims. As a proper name for a historical movement, the meaning is referential and culturally specific, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituent words would not reliably infer the group's political/militant nature without prior exposure.
Etymology
Black Panthers came from the animal, the panther, a strong cat that can defend itself and move quietly at night. That bold image of power and protection helped people see the group as ready to fight police violence and stand up for Black 'rights' and 'self-defense'.