Elbert "Big Man" Howard, founding member of Black Panther Party

Elbert "Big Man" Howard, one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party, spoke at the opening of a photo exhibit featuring the work of Pirkle Jones & Ruth-Marion Baruch. Novato CA 19may11

A tour of Oakland CA

I shot several videos of Elbert "Big Man" Howard discussing historic locations in the history of Oakland CA focusing on the Black Panthers.

Big Man, Lisa & I at Panther reunion

43rd Black Panther Party reunion
Laney College, Oakland CA, 24oct09

Big Man (Elbert Howard) & new Black Panther website

Big Man has his own website now! Read about the history of the Black Panthers as told by one of it's elders.

Elbert Howard is one of the six original Black Panthers, was Deputy Minister of Information, a member of the Central Committee and the International Solidarity Committee, and the BPP newspaper's first editor.