Councilmember Trayon White's lawyer made his case before the D.C. Council arguing that his client cannot be expelled due to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

I left the BPP about August of 1970. In 1974-75 Bobby Rush, former Illinois Black Panther Party's Deputy Minister of Defense ran for Democratic ward committeeman in Chicago's 2nd ward. I took part in ...

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. By 1968, the group became a human rights organization inspired by the Black Panther Party, according to the Library of Congress ...

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 ...