Howard L. Bingham's Black Panthers 1968

Forty years after Life magazine sent writer Gilbert Moore and photographer Howard Bingham to document and tell the story of the Black Panthers. The very secretive Panthers and their Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver would only allow Life to do the story if Bingham was the photographer. Bingham and Moore followed the Panthers for months from Oakland to New York to Los Angeles only to have the story pulled due to a disagreement between Moore and the magazine. Now, Forty years later, these photographs and their story will finally be published. The book will include interviews with Bingham and Moore about the assignment, the Black Panthers and their place in history.

Howard Bingham has documented much of the history of our times with millions of still images. He authored Muhammad Ali: A Thirty Year Journeyand Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight. As a photographer for Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, People Ebony and many other international publications, Bingham has documented the most important events and peronalities of our time. He is the personal photographer to the families of Muhammad Ali and Bill Cosby.