Among the social and political forces that roiled the nation in the 1960s, few have been the subject of as intense debate as the Black Panther Party. How should the group be remembered? For its ...

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 ...

André Holland takes on the role of revolutionary Huey P. Newton in the trailer for Apple TV+'s The Big Cigar. Far from a ...

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

Arrested in connection with an attack on a park guard in Philly’s Fairmount Park in 1970, he spent two years underground with various chapters of the Black Panther Party until he was arrested ...

by Elaine Brown The [Black Panther] party reached out mostly to men ... which we thought of as socialist revolution, would take our lives. And so we had to surrender that. We had to make a ...

José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez, civil rights activist and founder of the Young Lords Organization, died Friday, Jan. 10. He was 76.

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 ...