The Black Panther Heritage Trail will mark 13 historical sites important to the Illinois chapter of the civil rights ...

A self-guided online tour is in the works for the 12 sites in Chicago and one in Peoria that are listed on the inaugural ...

On October 15, 1966, in Oakland, CA, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton founded the Black Panther Party. This group established their 10 Point Program outlining issues that were significant among members ...

Black Panthers protest during Huey Newton ... every morning this year The Almanac will highlight something that happened that day in history and how The Nation covered it. Get The Almanac ...

KRON4 News' Anchor Stephanie Lin spoke with Dr. Xavier Buck, the Executive Director of the Huey P. Newton Foundation and Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party Museum.

A new heritage trail in Illinois honors the positive contributions of the Black Panther Party with historical markers.

Sharif El-Mekki of the Center for Black Educator Development says our kids still need to be taught truth and knowledge of ...

by Elaine Brown The [Black Panther] party reached out mostly to men ... From Hampton, Henry, and Steve Fayer, Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s ...

“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 ...

The congressman, who helped found the Illinois Black Panther Party and blames the FBI for ... “We want to bring light, a bright light, to a dark history of our nation. And I think it’s very ...

celebrating Black history, including Juneteenth long before the holiday became federally recognized. Jilchristina Vest keeps the doors of the Black Panther Party Mini Museum open each day, welcoming ...

In today’s newsletter, we’re looking into the new Illinois Black Panther Party Heritage Trail — and what it means to set the ...