Black Panther Party Newspaper Community Archive

About This Grant

Estelita's Library currently holds one of the worlds largest collections of Black Panther Newspapers, with more than 300 papers spanning the duration of the existence of the newspaper. Currently, our collection is in paper form which makes it difficult for us to share it broadly with the community. Through this project, we will engage community members in a series of 6 free workshops from July 2024-May 2025 teaching them the fundamentals of digital archiving. The community will build out an archive featuring their own resistance stories, as well as archiving our collection of Black Panther Newspapers. The archive will be available, free-of-cost, by community request either by emailing or dropping in to our public open hours. This work will culminate in a free Community Archive Launch Party in April 2025.