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Founder @blackpantherpartymuseum | ED @hueypnewtonfoundation | Historian @historyin3 | Board Member @blackmuseums | UC Berkeley PhD | ΦΒΣ
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The Black Panther Party had 65 survival programs that served the people body and soul. Don’t let anybody fool you— that’s why the federal government labeled them terrorists. The FBI spent countless resources damaging the people and legacy of the Black Panther Party— literally creating a program called COINTELPRO to “discredit, disrupt, and destroy Black leaders”— but because Panthers and many others have carried this legacy for almost 60 years, the @blackpantherpartymuseum now exists to share the real story from the Panthers’ perspectives.
The Panthers showed the world what People’s Power looks like— serving, organizing, educating, and taking control and reimagining the institutions in our communities— and that shook the rich and powerful to their core. Even the FBI director said he was more scared of their breakfast program than their guns.
There was no better time to open “Survival Pending Revolution: The Black Panther Party Service to the People Programs” than now. The Panthers are the reason you eat in schools. The Panthers are the reason people talk about universal healthcare. The Panthers taught us how to tell stories through art and language before social media. Curating this exhibit at this time was about connecting the dots between past and present movements. It was about repairing the historical memory the War on Drugs robbed my generation of. It was about creating the world, out of love, that we want to live in.
This exhibit was made possible by Panthers who provided input and donated artifacts, from my dedicated team who always went above and beyond, from the Oakland community that constantly offered their time and ideas, and the donors, both large and small, who continue to support this vital independent museum. Thank you for trusting me to curate this exhibit and thank you for supporting the Black Panther Party Museum.
Shout out to @bethaniehinesphotography for the beautiful photos!
Xavier Buck, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation & Founding Director, Black Panther Party Museum
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04 Mar 2025
Survival Pending Revolution: The Black Panther Party Service to the People Programs exhibition is now open!
Black Panther Party Museum
Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 3pm
1427 Broadway, Oakland
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16 Feb 2025
It didn’t feel real until I saw the photos for myself! After 5+ years taking classes, teaching, researching, and writing, I officially earned my Ph.D. in history from the University of California Berkeley. When I look back I have nothing but praise that God brought me through. Honestly, when I started my program I wasn’t ready academically. There was a lot I still needed to learn and books I should have read that most of my peers had. I felt inadequate because I was one of the few in my program who didn’t come from a research one school and one of very few people of color. Every single year was difficult. I struggled through every semester. But God gave me the strength and the people around me to make it through. Now my daughter will come from two generations of doctors and many generations of people who walked by faith. It’s after those endless nights and sleepless days that I am elated to share that I am Dr. Xavier Buck!
Thank you @doreanraye for the photos! 📸
#blackphds #blacklivesmatter #blackhistory #blackpower #education #ucberkeley #calbears #phibetasigma #bluphi
30 Aug 2021
This time last week, we kicked off the Black Panther Party’s 60th Anniversary.
From @oakstop to the @blackpantherpartymuseum, and @bambdcdc to @fluid510 students, Party, alum, organizers and community members convened ✊🏾
For those who were in the audience, what’s one thing you learned, or what insight did you gain? 👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿
We want to know, and the folks who didn’t make it do to!
#bpp60 #blackpantherparty
23 Oct 2026
🚨 “Young Black voters don’t care about midterms.” Fact or Fiction?
On Episode 3 of Cite Your Source, our fact-checker @historyin3 puts the claim to the test, and the receipts go back further than you think.
🎧 Episode 3 streaming now!
22 Oct 2026
@historyin3 joins us on @abc7newsbayarea 7@7, to talk about the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party— founded in 1966 in Oakland by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
Today marks the actual founding date, 10/15.
@xavierbuck explains all the activations expected over the next four days, including an exhibition at the Oakland Main Library, Oaktown Thursdays, a 2-day conference with 30 workshops, a gala, the unveiling of Black Panther Party Blvd., and a Community Day.
bpp60.org for all details. @bpp60th
15 Oct 2026
@xavierbuck has spent his career making sure the story of the #BlackPantherParty is preserved, told fully, and carried forward.
As founding director and head curator of the @blackpantherpartymuseum in Oakland and Executive Director of the @hueypnewtonfoundation, he leads the exhibitions, archives, and community programs that keep the Party’s legacy alive.
And through @historyin3, he makes Black history, politics, and global liberation movements accessible to audiences everywhere.
This October marks 60 years since the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded right here in #Oakland.
Ahead of the anniversary, Dr. Buck joins us in person at @moadsf on Sunday, October 4 from 2–4 PM for MoAD Mix: Keeping the Fire — Art, Resistance & the Black Panther Legacy. He’ll be in conversation with artists and former Party members Malik Edwards and Gayle “Asali” Dickson, reflecting on the Party’s history, its iconic visual culture, and the artists who helped carry its message.
Sixty years later, we’ll gather to ask what we carry forward and what we must reimagine for our own time.
RSVP at the link in bio.
#BPP60 #Oakland #Nexus
26 Sep 2026
The story of the Black Panther Party has been told many times — often by those with the most to gain from distorting it. In the popular imagination, the Party has been reduced to leather jackets, berets, and raised fists: a story of men, guns, and government confrontation. That telling is not an accident. It is the product of decades of deliberate misrepresentation by the very forces the Party organized against.
This exhibit tells a different story — the true one.
The women you will meet here were not extraordinary in the way myths are made. They were teenagers and young women — students, churchgoers, dancers, mothers, poets — nineteen years old on average when they decided, as Ericka Huggins writes, that there had to be “a way out of no way.” They ran the newspaper and offices, served as security detail, and powered every survival program the Party built — from free breakfast for children to health clinics, ambulance services, clothing drives, and sickle cell testing. They did all of this while being tailed by the FBI, separated from their families, and targeted by the full force of the United States government. They did it anyway — out of love, out of conviction, out of a clear-eyed belief that serving the people was the most important thing a person could do with their life.
By 1969, women made up more than two-thirds of the Party’s membership. They were, as Angela Davis writes, “literally the heart of this new political approach to Black freedom.” Through the lens of photographer Stephen Shames, and woven together by Party leader Ericka Huggins, these women finally tell their own story.
Exhibit will be open from June 2026 - January 2027 @blackpantherpartymuseum
Curated by @xavierbuck and @mueniloko
📸 @bethaniehinesphotography
26 Jul 2026
Off the grid living life and appreciating every little detail. Those mustard seeds of faith sure do grow a pretty garden. 🌊☀️
25 Jul 2026
I’ve been making 3-minute videos for seven years. But some history can’t fit in three minutes. The extended brief, the tactical analysis, the sources, the deeper framework — that lives on Substack now. Four articles already up. Founding member spots available. Link in bio.
#blackhistory #blackpower #blackstudies #resist #allpowertothepeople
17 Apr 2026
It has been my greatest honor to stand on the shoulders of David Hilliard and Fredrika Newton and lead the @hueypnewtonfoundation into its 30th anniversary. One thing I’ve learned doing this work: for those of us who imagine a world beyond themselves— one where our stories are told accurately, where movements built on love are more important than profit, where liberation finally brings peace— there is a way.
We are quite literally creating a world that does not yet exist. The Foundation started by preserving the largest Panther archive in the world, by conducting bus tours in Oakland and photo exhibits across Europe, and planning youth conferences from the Bay to D.C. More recently we installed Dr. Huey P. Newton Way and a bronze bust of Huey in West Oakland. Then we founded the @blackpantherpartymuseum and opened the Dr. Huey P. Newton Research Room. There’s something about the Panther spirit— the way it speaks to the people— that grows constantly. No wonder that even during the years of the greatest FBI repression, the Black Panther Party grew the most. How could the people feeding your babies, healing the sick, protecting the seniors, and caring for the incarcerated be terrorists? Most things the powerful tell us don’t add up, then and now. Which is why the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation exists. In an era of rampant disinformation, we use the archive we built and protected and work with Panthers around the nation to tell the accurate history of the most influential movement of the 20th century. And the impact is only growing.
All roads lead to the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party on October 15-17, 2026 in Oakland, CA. This is living history, ready to shape our lives today and the many worlds yet to come.
Here are some of my favorite photos from the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation’s 30th anniversary!
All Power to the People!
- Dr. @xavierbuck
📸 @bethaniehinesphotography
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02 Jan 2026
“Don’t it seem we go through life going up and down / Seems the things that turn you on turn you around / Always hurting each other / If it ain’t one thing it’s another / But when the world is down on you / Love’s somewhere around / Well it seems to me that / Joy and pain are like sunshine and rain”
- Frankie Beverly
15 Nov 2025
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