Aaron Dixon

#OnThisDay: The Founding of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense

October 15, 2020

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On this day (and/or around it) in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was founded. The Black Panther Party had one initial purpose: to patrol Black neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. It grew into a movement used to empower black communities and provided a…

Cool Like That: The Story of Aaron Dixon, Seattle’s Black Panther Party Leader

January 30, 2020

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*Updated from January 28, 2018 Black Like Vanilla IG post This is Aaron Dixon, founding member of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party, on the cover of the October 1968 edition of Seattle Magazine. The Seattle chapter was one of the first Black Panther chapters authorized outside of California and…