Evaluates the relationship between the Black Panthers and the media to address how the long-standing group became associated with black militancy in America throughout the past half century, citing the group's deliberate efforts to influence their own media coverage while evaluating media and government efforts to both eradicate and elevate Panther status.Evaluates how the Black Panthers' deliberate efforts to influence their own media coverage led them to become associated with black militancy in America, and discusses the government's efforts to eradicate them which merely fueled the group's popularity.