Seize the Time

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Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton is a book by Bobby Seale, co-founder and national chairman of the Black Panther Party. Published in 1970, the work details the party's origins and its fight for Black empowerment, a departure from the nonviolent civil rights movement. The Black Panthers advocated for militant Black empowerment while also establishing community programs like free breakfast for schoolchildren and medical clinics. The book offers insight into the party's activism and its leaders, including Huey P. Newton.123

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Bobby Seale
…autobiography A Lonely Rage (1978), Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton (1970), and Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers (2016; cowritten with Stephen Shames). Seale also published Barbeque’n with Bobby (1988), a cookbook.
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…autobiography A Lonely Rage (1978), Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton (1970), and Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers (2016; cowritten with Stephen Shames). Seale also published Barbeque’n with Bobby (1988), a cookbook.
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