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According to a shocking new report by The Nation, former Black Panther Party members have insisted that they are still being monitored by the FBI even though COINTELPRO was terminated back in 1971.
The revolutionary Black Panther Party was founded 55 years ago this month and its ideals are not only still vital but celebrated. Fredrika Newton, the widow of Huey P. Newton, will participate in ...
No one knows when the idea entered Huey Newton’s brain, kindling it like a forest fire. To be sure, he had been a wayward youth, engaged in burglaries and fistfights — sometimes with mo… ...
The Black Panther Party gave Hilliard the chance to work on something important. It gave him a reason to learn, a reason to believe, a reason to hope.
The Black Panther Party was born in Lowndes County, Alabama. This is the story of that often-overlooked part of civil rights history.
Activist Flores Forbes discusses his new book Will You Die With Me? -- My Life and the Black Panther Party, which details his 18-year history with the group and its ultimate disintegration.
For Black History Month I am dedicating a two-part podcast to the Black Panthers and speaking with author David F. Walker ("Bitter Root," "Shaft," "The Life of Frederick Douglas") about his new ...
Marvel’s Black Panther (a.k.a. King T’Challa) was a product of the ’60s, created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee during their legendary creative relationship at Marvel. He first appeared in ...
Fredrika joined the Black Panther Party as a teen in 1969. She met Huey in 1970 and married in 1981. After Huey’s death in 1989, Fredrika established the Huey P. Newton Foundation where she ...
In 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, Calif. ... The BPP ...
I was at the birth of the local Black Panther Party. There’s still so much work to be done. Some things have improved over the years for people in my community.