In 1976, the Black Panther published several letters to the editor that provided direct statements from Black individuals being held in psychiatric institutions. During 1976, the Black Panther also published two articles providing state and federal legal context for the claims of those being held in psychiatric institutions. One of the two context articles explains a proposed California state bill that would mandate the right to refuse psychiatric medication, psychosurgery and other "psycho-organic procedures." The other article reported on the congressional National Commission for the Protection of Human Biomedical Behavioral Research's decision that allowed the continued use of psychosurgery as an experimental research procedure.

These articles represent the BPP awareness and promotion of political anti-psychiatry work on the macro-level, along with Mad pride and other consumer/survivor/ex-patient movements that attended to the microlevel experiences of individuals.