Huey Newton

Huey P. Newton has been mythologized and maligned since his murder 34 years ago. His family and friends offer an intimate look inside his life and mind.

The role of family in Huey P. Newton's educational journey.

The Black Panther Party illustrated how communal love can be a powerful agent for change and empowerment.

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

Orisanmi Burton reflects on the legacy of the Panther 21 on the 50th anniversary (to the day) of their acquittal.

Judy Juanita on her novel 'Virgin Soul,' which incorporates her experiences as a Black Panther living in San Francisco.

What gun regulations meant to the founders, and why the Black Panthers are the true pioneers of today's pro-gun movement.

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.

International trade boomed with the city’s early adoption of technological and economic changes, but Black neighborhoods became ‘sacrifice zones.’

A new career-spanning book offers a portrait of Painter’s career as a historian, essayist, and most recently visual artist.

“This isn’t about being for one group or against another. It’s about basic human rights.”

Much of what's happening in American race relations traces back to 1966, the year the Black Panthers were formed.

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

In the 1960s and 1970s, photographer Leni Sinclair stood at the center of a local scene where political and cultural ferment merged.

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

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?

By the end of his life, inspired by the radicalism of the Black Panthers, Baldwin was again ready to proclaim himself a socialist.

Philadelphia’s PAL and the Black Panther Party’s efforts to mold black youth into their own image.

Decades before protests against mass incarceration galvanized the black freedom struggle, Malcolm indicted the entire justice system as racist.