New Afrikan Black Panther Party

The New Afrikan Black Panther Party (NABPP) is a Black Power and Maoist[1] organization in the United States, largely based in prison[2] and referred to as the New Afrikan Black Panther Party – Prison Chapter (NABPP-PC).

Not to be confused with the New Black Panther Party or the Black Panther Party.
New Afrikan Black Panther Party
AbbreviationNABPP
ChairmanShaka Zulu
FoundedApril 2005 (2005-04)
IdeologyAfrican-American leftism
Anti-racism
Communism
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationUnited Panther Movement
Colors  Black

The party was founded in 2005 by Kevin Rashid Johnson and Shaka Zulu (Zulu Sharod)[3] with support from Native American activist Tom Big Warrior.[4] The NABPP-PC claims to follow the “class-based ideological line of the original Black Panther Party" while rejecting the “race-based, anti-white” politics of the New Black Panther Party.[4] The party also claims continuity with the Black Panther prison chapter as developed by George Jackson and W. L. Nolen in 1971.[5]

Party leaders were active in the 2016 U.S. prison strike and claimed retribution from prison authorities for their involvement.[6]

In January 2021, FBI agents interviewed Shaka Zulu on involvement in the Capitol attack; Zulu denied any involvement and considered the interview "harassment." Moira Meltzer-Cohen of the National Lawyers Guild viewed the interview as part of wider attempts by the FBI to target left-wing organizations following the Capitol attack.[3]

References
  1. Johnson, Kevin Rashid (11 August 2014). "The New Afrikan Black Panther Party – Prison Chapter : Our Origin, Where We've Been, Where We Aim to Go". rashidmod.com. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
  2. da Silva, Steve. "Interview with John 'Mac' Gaskins, New Afrikan Black Panther Party". BASICS Community News Service. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  3. Marcetic, Branko (25 February 2021). "Republicans Are Using the Capitol Riot as a Trojan Horse to Target the Left". In These Times. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  4. Musgrove, George Derek (September 2019). ""There Is No New Black Panther Party": The Panther-Like Formations and the Black Power Resurgence of the 1990s". The Journal of African American History. 104 (4): 619–656. doi:10.1086/705022. ISSN 1548-1867. S2CID 210503508.
  5. Canada, Kelvin Khaysi. "New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter's 10th Anniversary". San Francisco Bay View. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  6. Newton, Creede (2016-11-09). "Texas Censors Inmates' Mail to Stop a Nationwide Prison Strike". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
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