Before dawn on December 4, 1969, then-Cook County State’s Attorney Edward Hanrahan sent a squad of police officers into a ...

Denise Oliver-Vélez, a pioneering member of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party and a trailblazing broadcaster and ...

Lifelong activist, organizer and educator Denise Oliver-Vélez has died at the age of 78. She was a central figure in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s and was the first woman elected ...

The Justice Department is now investigating the city for potentially violating the Second Amendment over its treatment of a ...

Born in the streets of Oakland, the Black Panther Party became one of the most radical movements of the Cold War era — ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. On this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Dr. Joy James and Dr. K. Kim ...

While the youth got no clue what the [Black Panther Party] was about, they got the essence… What they like is that the Party ...