{"product_id":"black-panther-party-service-to-the-people-programs","title":"Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Black Panther Party\u003c\/i\u003e represents Black Panther Party members' coordinated responses over the last four decades to the failure of city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of their respective communities. The Party pioneered free social service programs that are now in the mainstream of American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Party's Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation, operated with Oakland's Children's Hospital, was among the nation's first such testing programs. Its Free Breakfast Program served as a model for national programs. Other initiatives included free clinics, grocery giveaways, school and education programs, senior programs, and legal aid programs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished here for the first time in book form, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Panther Party\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case that the programs' methods are viable models for addressing the persistent, basic social injustices and economic problems of today's American cities and suburbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0826343945\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780826343949\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Huey P Newton Foundation, Hilliard, David, West, Cornel\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of New Mexico Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of New Mexico Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (May 2008)","offer_id":45659298955461,"sku":"9780826343949","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780826343949.jpg?v=1768908051","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/black-panther-party-service-to-the-people-programs","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}