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 ...

I am the co-founder of The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, which has worked since 1995 to share his legacy and the accurate ...

The grandson of a founding member of the Black Panther Party said his grandfather does not support former President Donald Trump, asserting that a viral video interview of the activist supposedly ...

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

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

“There was a lot of history that happened here,” she says quietly. “This park was basically ground zero for the Black Panther Party in Oakland.” As a member of the original chapter of the group (then ...

on June 19 Livia Gershon Shaka King's upcoming film dramatizes Black Panther leader Fred Hampton's betrayal by an FBI informant ...

José "Cha Cha" Jimenez, a Puerto Rican activist in Chicago, died last week. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with DePaul University professor Jacqueline Lazú about his life and legacy.

founder of the Young Lords in Chicago-area Puerto Rican group, attends a news conference led by Bobby Rush, deputy defense minister of the Illinois Black Panther party, in Chicago, June 4 ...