Fredrika Newton, head of The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation and Newton’s widow, will give Bryn Mawr College’s annual Black History Month keynote address at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28, in the Great Hall of Old Library.

Founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, Calif., the party was part of the Black Power movement whose ideology broke from the nonviolent protest tactics embraced by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Black History Month arrives tomorrow and there are so many amazing performances, museum exhibits and Black-owned businesses you can support throughout February.

Chicago’s Very Own WGN-TV will present special features celebrating Black History Month on WGN News, People to People, and WGN News Special: Honoring Black

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Councilmember Trayon White's lawyer made his case before the D.C. Council arguing that his client cannot be expelled due to a procedural issue and that the removal violates D.C. Home Rule.

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling reiterated that his department cannot assist ICE, but they can communicate with the federal law enforcement agency. Meanwhile, Mayor Brandon Johnson had strong words for the mass deportations for which so many voted.

A federal freeze on loans and grants announced this week by the Donald Trump administration has numerous agencies and programs on alert, including head start programs in Chicago. WGN's Lourdes Duarte reports on the impact being felt around Chicago.

Warner Bros. has announced that the full trailer for Ryan Coogler's Sinners will be released online tomorrow, and you can check out a creepy new teaser right

The Godfather of Harlem has his work cut out for him with a new rival in the first teaser trailer for Season 4 of the MGM+ series (premiering Sunday, April 13, with weekly episodes). Rome Flynn (Chicago Fire,

From slavery to wealth” is the phrase that best describes the story of Barney L. Ford, who was born into slav­ery on this day in 1822 in Stafford Court, Va.—the product of a Black woman and a plantation owner.

In a nutshell, an oligarchy is a system of government in which an elite (those on the top of the food chain) few control the government’s actions. China is an oligarchy. Russia is one. France doesn’t know w hat it wants to be, but it has flirted with it from time to time.

at the time one of the most impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago. By 1968, the group became a human rights organization inspired by the Black Panther Party, according to the Library of Congress ...