60s Black Panthers seen again in photo collection [video 124min]

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, photographer Stephen Shames delivers a PowerPoint presentation and discusses some of the images in his new book, The Black Panthers, at Cooper Union in New York City. Shames is joined by Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Leslie Johnson-Seale, wife of Bobby Seale and former member of the party, and Charles Jones, founding chair of the African American Studies Department at Georgia State University. Shames created the photo essays"Outside the Dream" and"Pursuing the Dream." He founded the Outside the Dream Foundation to educate AIDS orphans, street kids, and vulnerable children in Uganda and India in 2002. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the International Center of Photography, the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Photographic Arts, The University of California’s Bancroft Library, the San Jose Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.