Events across the Chicago area Wednesday are marking 55 ... CPD and the FBI saw the then-deputy chairman of the National Black Panther Party as a threat, during the height of the civil rights ...

by Elaine Brown The [Black Panther] party reached out mostly to men ... And his house, that house on the West Side [of Chicago], was a horrible place to live. But he didn't live above, or elevate ...

Relive the excitement of Marvel’s Black Panther with one of the country’s finest symphonic orchestras. Tomorrow the Chicago Philharmonic will perform the Oscar and Grammy-Winning score live to ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition has died. He was 76. His sister, Daisy ...

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 ...

Founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, Calif., the party was part of the Black Power movement whose ...

at the time one of the most impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago. Inspired by the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords challenged institutional racism and police brutality and advocated for ...