Existing literature on the Black Panther Party and martial arts mostly focuses on how martial arts contributed to the Black Panther Party survival programs. Yet, few if any have focused on the role, intention, and effect of The Black Panther newspaper in promoting martial arts programs of the party. This paper fills in the gap by systematically analyzing The Black Panther newspaper as an attempt to help further explain the Party’s stance on Oriental culture and American cultural politics using its representation of martial arts as heuristic and framing device. I argue that the Black Panther Party’s martial arts, as a part of survival programs, is an American invention that addressed the party’s colonial and urban anxieties. This paper contributes to the growing literature on Afro-Asian relations and cultural hybridity and suggests that the Black Atlantic culture is simultaneously Asian.