Early last year, U.S. Reps. Joaquín Castro of Texas and Jimmy Gomez of California asked the CIA and the FBI to release their ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez in the 1960s founded the Young Lords as a street gang to counter the growing hostility toward the ...

Dr. Julius Garvey pushes for his father Marcus Garvey, who died in 1940, to receive a posthumous presidential pardon.

He transformed what was once a Puerto Rican street gang into a political group and community-based organization modeled on ...

The founder of the Young Lords, José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, has died at the age of 76. In the 1960s, Jiménez turned a Chicago ...

Huggins’ spirituality and political engagement were intertwined throughout her career with the Black Panther Party and beyond ...