# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melvin-newton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:19:47.036Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melvin-newton"
name: "Melvin Newton"
slug: "melvin-newton"
tagline: "American social worker, Faculty Emeritus of Merritt College, and former Minister of Finance for the Black Panther Party"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           2.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           0.6666666666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     4.999999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  47
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134399346"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations