‘Brave people stepped up to the plate’: remembering the Black Panthers through art

A new group exhibition adds a contemporary lens to the work of the Black Panther party in the era of Black Lives MatterSadie Barnette’s work honours her father’s time in the Black Panther party, a political organisation founded in the tumultuous 1960s that tried to combine socialism, Black nationalism and armed defence against police brutality.In particular, she takes as raw material a 500-page surveillance file on Rodney Barnette, compiled by J Edgar Hoover’s FBI, which descri