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Remember how we said we’d be trying out some new things in the newsletter? Today, we’re going to let images do most of the talking.

This month, the San Francisco Art Institute and U.C. Santa Cruz will host an exhibition featuring archival photographs of Black Panthers by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch, many of which were first shown 50 years ago at the de Young Museum.

Some of them, though, haven’t been exhibited before — and I’m excited to say we have an exclusive preview.

The original 1968 exhibition drew more than 100,000 visitors, according to The Times’s obituary for Mr. Jones — it included now-iconic images of young black men and women, clad in leather jackets and berets, solemnly holding guns or waving flags.