Panther cubs,” the now-grown children of 1960s Black Panther Party (BPP) members, participated in an open discussion about their childhood.

A new exhibit at the California Museum in downtown Sacramento captures the images and stories of dozens of former Black ...

The Black Panther Party illustrated how communal love can be a ... focused on helping the population they saw as most ...

More than 50 years after the heyday of the Party activity in the 1960s and '70s, Panther offspring Ericka Abram, K’Sisay Sadiki, and Sharif El-Mekki gather to reflect on the lessons and legacy ...

Bobby Rush (center), Illinois Black Panther Party coordinator, speaks at an October 1972 news conference where he denounced the acquittal of Cook County State’s Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan and ...

The health clinic that has Black Panther Party roots at a Seattle public middle school is offering free gender-reassignment medications for children as young as 11 years old. The Meany Health ...

The Brief. Black Panther Party museum launches new exhibit about history of party's social service programs; Frederika Newton says the party organized more than 65 community service programs to ...

Dr. Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, would have turned 81 this year. His life story has been shared by many, but no one knows it quite like his widow, Fredrika Newton.

In the 1960s civil rights movement, some concluded that non-violence and the focus on integration had failed — their cry was “Black Power” rather than “We Shall Overcome.” One of the ...

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.

The Black Panther Party’s enduring legacy is its programs like Free Breakfast for Children, which helped to inspire a national movement of community organizing for economic independence ...