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Eldridge Cleaver – “On the Ideology of the Black Panther Party” (1969)

When we say that we are Marxist-Leninists, we mean that we have studied and understood the classical principles of scientific socialism and that we have adapted these principles to our own situation for ourselves.

He criticizes some aspects of Marxism and especially some ML movements, but he nonetheless identifies the BPP as belonging to the ML lineage.

Huey P. Newton -- "To Die for the People" (1972)

The Black Panther Party called itself a Marxist-guided organization. It made the study of Marxism-Leninism compulsory among the leading cadre. This step was unprecedented in the history of the Black Liberation struggle. The Panthers did not lift the Black Liberation movement to an international level. The Communist Party of the U.S.A. had already done that. That is why it was feared and all progressive steps were charged to it. Black and White Communists had stood in international bodies to proclaim that inseparable relation of the struggle of Blacks in the U.S.A. to the world-wide freedom struggle. The Black Liberation struggle no less needs the guidance of a scienct: than does every other liberation struggle. Social revolution is a science, as the Communists have said many times, a science to be creatively used has to be mastered and the science guiding revolution must of historical necessity be a universal science. That science is Marxism-Leninism.

He says some strange things about Lenin and the BPP not being historical materialists but being dialectical materialists that I don't really understand, but generally we can say that he explicitly aligns the BPP with his views on ML theory.

I think that someone misinformed you on the BPP for the sake of some sort of anti-Lenin revisionism. They were very big fans of Mao, but "Maoism" as a thing opposed to "Leninism" didn't really exist yet and Mao himself clearly didn't like such a characterization.