The Black Panthers ─ Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution

October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party. Photojournalist Bryan Shih, who has been interviewing and taking portraits of the surviving Panthers around the country for years, has partnered with Yohuru Williams, dean and history professor at Fairfield University, to deliver the definitive celebration of the Black Panthers. Part oral history, part scrapbook, this is a beautifully produced book of forty-five black-and-white portraits of the Panthers today, alongside interviews with the surviving Panthers, archival images, Black Panther Party pamphlets and speeches, as well as essays by contributors such as Peniel Joseph, Alondra Nelson, Rhonda Williams, and other high-profile scholars to provide background and context.

Bryan Shih is a photojournalist based in New York. A former contributor to theFinancial Times and National Public Radio in Japan, he is a graduate of the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and a former Fulbright scholar. His work on the Panthers has garnered him one of the highest rankings among entries in the LensCulture 2015 Portrait Awards competition, and has led to his selection for theNew York Times inaugural portfolio review.

Yohuru Williams is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Fairfield University. Previously History Department Chair and Director of Black Studies at Fairfield, he is also Chief Historian for the Jackie Robinson Foundation and Museum in New York. He received his PhD from Howard and is the author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power and the Black Panthers in New Haven and the coeditor ofA Constant Struggle: African-American History, 1865-Present, In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement,and Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party. He has appeared on Al Jazeera America, Ebru TV, Fox Business, C-SPAN, and NPR.