Black Panther Party Co-Founder Talks Body Cams, Barack Obama and Donald Trump

The Black Panther Party co-founder talks about his new book, the Party’s birthday and his own.

Your new book with photographer Stephen Shames, Power to the People, is full of pictures of the early days of the Black Panther Party. How does it feel to look back at that time?

It feels like yesterday. Because I never stopped being active in one way, shape, fashion, form or another.

The introduction notes that you want to help people understand the present by understanding the past.