Picturing Black History

Photographs and stories that changed the world

A collaboration of and

Robert F. Williams

PARIS - JANUARY 1974; Black Panther and writer Eldridge Cleaver, an exile from American justice, and wife Kathleen sit in their apartment in Paris France during their exile circa 1974

The Life of Eldridge Cleaver

Author of Soul on Ice and one of the most recognized activists for Black internationalism, Eldridge Cleaver went from militance to obscurity.

Chinese Prime Minister Zhou En-lai congratulates American Civil Rights leader Robert Franklin Williams following the latter's speech, Peking, China, August 8, 1966.

Panthers and the Premier: Black Internationalism & Cold War China

From Robert F. Williams and Huey Newton to President Richard Nixon, three moments where Black Liberation movements converged, and diverged, with Revolutionary China.