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IN MEMORIAM

As we work to transition to our new website and platform, we ask for your understanding and patience. We are in the process of honoring the legacy of our fallen comrades throughout history. Please visit us again soon for updates as we continue to expand our archives and honor their lasting legacy. 

 

-NAABPP, Communications Department

The Black Panther Traveling Tapestry Blanket has draped the coffin or has hung at the memorial of our fallen comrades. Their names are listed on the back.

 

BLACK PANTHER TRAVELING TAPESTRY BLANKET #1

 

  1. Herman Wallace-New Orleans,LA 2013

  2. Ronald & Roland Freeman-Los Angeles , Ca 2014

  3. James “Bubber” Young-Boston, Ma 2016

  4. Afenie Shakur-Brooklyn, New York 2016

  5. Richard Brown, Oakland, Cal 2018

  6. Elbert “Big Man” Howard- Santa Rosa, Ca 2018

  7. Annette “Boocie” Reaves-Talladega, Ala 2019

  8. Falomi Muhammad-Philadelphia, Pa 2019

  9. Vernon”Sensie”Benton- Houston ,Tx 2019

  10. Robert Seth Hayes-Buffalo, NY 2019

  11. Roger Smith-Linden, NJ 2019

  12. ,Jake Sutton-Baltimore Md, 2020

  13. Romaine “Chip”Fitzgerald-Los Angeles, Ca 2021

  14. Warren “DK” Nelson-Raleigh, NC 2021

  15. Sultan Ahmed- Philadelphia , Pa 2021

  16. Russell “ Maroon” Shoatz- Philadelphia, Pa 2021

  17. Johnny “Torch” Sellers-Corona, New York 2022

  18. Albert Woodfox-New Orleans-2022

  19. George Edward-New Haven Ct-2022

  20. Marshall “Eddie” Conway-Baltimore,Md-2023

 

BLACK PANTHER TRAVELING TAPESTRY #2

 

  1. Thomas “Blood” McCreary-Harlem, NY 2023

  2. Dexter Woods, Oakland, Ca 2023

  3. Al Carroll, Oakland ,Ca 2023

  4. Paula Peebles -Philadelphia, Pa 2024

  5. Nkengi Toure-Upper Marboro,MD 2025

 

BLACK PANTHER MUSLIM TRAVELING TAPESTRY

 

  1. Sekou Odinga,Brooklyn,NY 2024

  2. Balil Sunni-Ali, Atlanta, Ga 2025

 

Long Live the Revolutionary Spirit of our Comrades

 

Our life can be thought of as a tapestry, with all of our relationships and experiences woven together to make that which is “us”.

 

The image of the tapestry is woven with six individual colors: green, blue, red, gold, black and white.

 

When we are young, we are like the green thread, learning as we go. 

Later, the blue sky fills our lives. In our prime, we progress and grow like the red thread and then we enter our golden years.

 

In the end the darkness gives way to the light during the final part of our journey.

Carry It On! These three simply words are a majestic summation on the life of our Beloved comrade-sista Assata Olugbala Shakur, whose battle with declining health issues ended this past Thursday, September 25, 2025.  She was 78 years-old. 

 

Carry It On is how Assata Shakur lived her life! Assata carried on our Black Freedom-dreams with an abundance of Love, self-determination, creativity, honor, commitment, sacrifice, fortitude, courage, strength, intelligence, beauty, resilience and resistance. 

 

 

The National Alumni Association of the Black Panther Party (NAABPP) cherishes and honors the life of Assata Shakur not as an icon, but as a mother, daughter, sista, friend and comrade, a human being.  A line in a poem written by one of her BPP/BLA POW comrades, Albert Nuh Washington (RIP) says, “who I am depends upon who you are.” Well to those who know and Love Assata and the history/herstory of the Black Freedom Struggle, she is our 20th and 21st century Freedom Fighter Harriet Tubman. She shares a birthday with another Ancestral radically fierce Black womyn warrior, Ida B. Wells, a great journalist and anti-lynching champion, and we cherish the news that she was welcomed into the Ancestral realm on the same day our legendary Freedom Fighter Baba Herman Ferguson was 11 years before!

 

Assata will continue to live in the hearts, minds, Spirits and memories of her daughter, three grandchildren, numerous BPP/BLA comrades, extended political families and nations of Freedom-Loving people around the world so long as we speak her name, Assata Olugbala Shakur.

 

Long Live the Revolutionary Spirit of Assata Olugbala Shakur, Presente

Dare to Struggle! Dare to Win!

 

All Power to the People!

 

The National Alumni Association of the Black Panther Party (NAABPP)