The top edge of the poster has the text: "Murdered". Below is a black and white photograph of a male figure, shown from the neck, he has a mustache. The bottom of the poster has the text: "Sam Napier / One Word Is A Thousand Words To A Thousand Ears. Sam Napier Spread / The People's Word. Even Now We Hear It Resound Ten Thousand Times. / 'Circulate To Educate' / Sam Napier, Black Panther Party, Intercommunal News Service, / Circulation Manager, Murdered By Fascists, / April 17, 1971 New York, New York" and a small Black Panther logo.