Fred Hampton

Activists on the campaign were dedicated, but the city of Chicago and the FBI had conspired to murder the city’s best organizer that night in December 1969.

The new crime thriller about a magnetic leader of the Black Panther Party is a sharp criticism of the FBI’s surveillance of social movements past and present.

Fifty years ago this week, a squad of Chicago police officers killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.

The young Civil Rights activist was killed in the dead of night by police and the FBI. Who was Fred Hampton?

José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez and the Young Lords laid the groundwork for radical racial justice movements.

How a team of lawyers exposed lies about police violence.

The story of how a group of poor whites in Chicago united with the Black Panthers to fight racism and capitalism.

The Black Panthers shook America before the party was gutted by the government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged with unassailable pride.

In Chicago, preservationists have launched an unusual effort to explore the radical history of the 1960s civil rights group through the city’s built environment.

Time to blow the final whistle on the oppression Olympics.

The beloved musical’s creator struggled to find a place between left and center.

It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California.

Pregnant and facing decades in prison, the mother of Tupac Shakur fought for her life — and triumphed — in the trial of the Panther 21.

Do we give the activist groups of the 1960s more credit than they deserve?

In 1968, Chicago grabbed the eyes of the world when fifteen thousand Vietnam antiwar protesters vowed to shut down the National Democratic Convention.

Historians should watch films like Judas and the Black Messiah as much for their filmmaking as their history making.

Why are Chicago’s race riots of 1919 overlooked in the city’s collective memory? A new project tells the stories of the 38 killed, and the legacy of racism in the U.S.

While the Panthers have become a staple of pop culture, veteran members of the group remain invisible.

On L.A. solidarity and the Black radical tradition.

In 1971, armed officers went to a house occupied by Black Panther activists, marking a policing trajectory toward a more militarized response to Black activism.