DOUGLAS, Emory, & Abreu Lazaro, as OSPAAAL.

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Solidarity with the African American People. Striking original poster by Cuban designer Lazaro Abreu, appropriated from an image by Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Minister of Culture and the party's in-house artist, demonstrating the solidarity between the Black Panthers and the Fidel Castro-founded Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL), the aim of which was to combat US imperialism and promote Pan-Africanism.OSPAAAL was born out of the Tricontinental Conference hosted in Havana in 1966. Formed with the intention of facilitating the union of liberation movements across the three continents, OSPAAAL's primary work was accomplished through its publishing arm. Although multiple Tricontinental conferences were planned, they were never realised, and the quarterly Tricontinental magazine that was born of the 1966 conference became an important method for those involved to maintain contact and share information. Vivid posters, now considered examples of the "golden age" of Cuban poster design, were often included in issues of the magazine, with messages printed in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic: "The posters were designed to galvanise and unite liberation struggles around the world - from civil rights and anti-apartheid movements to protests against the Vietnam war and Portuguese rule in Angola." (FT).OSPAAAL's strong affinity with the Black Panther Party in the US led to several unofficial collaborations. Stokely Carmichael d

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