This month, 54 years ago, the Black Panther Party was created. October 15th, 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers in the virtue of Malcolm X’s assassination, the increase of police brutality, and the Civil Movement in the U.S The Black nationalist organization was created to arm Black folks with a sense of self-defence. Banding together, the organization would patrol communities with large Black populations and protect them against police brutality.