Talks way too much about the violent elements of the Black Panthers and pays virtually no attention to the social work and the other elements of the party. In the last chapter he even acknowledges that the party was too militaristic in nature and too obsessed with being violent and confrontational with the establishment but then that is more or less all he writes about.
It's a good jumping off point for further reading - there must be a better book on TBP that dives into their community work, ideology and fleshes out their manifesto a little more fully.
Best quote was how he talks about how social change has to come from the bottom up and not be advocated for by celebrities living in ivory towers:
"Too many so called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars".
