Black Panther Party

A mini museum honoring the Black Panther Party opened in Oakland in a first-floor apartment building converted in a pop-up exhibit. The west Oakland home is where Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton was killed.

A West Oakland resident wants to celebrate the legacy of the women of the Black Panther Party with a permanent 2,000-square-foot mural on her house. Jilchristina Vest joins NBC Bay Area to talk more about the project.

A storage unit in the East Bay is said to have stacks of historic memorabilia belonging to the Black Panther Party.

A storage unit in the East Bay is said to have stacks of historic memorabilia belonging to the Black Panther Party. Melissa Colorado reports.

Community members and widow of Black Panther movement founder Dr. Huey P. Newton unveiled a new street named after him to honor what would be his 79th birthday. Cierra Johnson reports.

Dr. Edward S. Cooper, the first Black President of the American Heart Association and Martin Luther King Jr.’s physician, has spent his life sealing the health gap for Black Americans.

Rev. William B. Moore talks about how Black student of the time used civil disobedience to gain small victories during the Civil Rights Movement, and how participating as a sit-in protester shaped the rest of his life as an activist.

Dr. LaVerne Bell-Tolliver, a native of segregated Little Rock, Arkansas, recalls her experience as the first Black student attempting to desegregate Forest Heights Junior High School.

Elaine Brown is accustomed to breaking new ground — and overcoming adversity is a challenge she’d conquered long before she made history in the 1970s as the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party.

Elaine Brown talks about meeting and working with Huey Newton, one of the founders of the Black Panther Party, as well as the legacy of that party today.

Elaine Brown, the first and only woman to have led the Black Panther Party, describe how the Black Panther Party got its start as an organization and how it came to the forefront of the American consciousness in the 1970s.

The National Park Service has withdrawn plans to pay nearly $100,000 for a project honoring the legacy of the Black Panther Party after police groups complained to President Donald Trump.

Twitter and technology have changed the immediacy and the ability to organize African-Americans to shut down commerce and decry police brutality.

Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, will be speaking at a Richmond event commemorating Black History Month on Feb. 24.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, actress Jane Fonda and attorney Gloria Allred were among the inductees at the National Women’s Hall of Fame on Saturday. The Class of 2019 inducted into the hall in upstate New York also included activist Angela Davis , attorney Sarah Deer, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg , retired Air Force fighter pilot Nicole Malachowski,...

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama is getting withering criticism on social media after rescinding its decision to honor political activist and scholar Angela Davis. Davis is a Birmingham native who has spent decades fighting for civil rights. She was an active member of the Black Panther Party, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Communist Party USA. She’s also an...

Elbert “Big Man” Howard, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party who served as newspaper editor, information officer and logistics genius behind the group’s popular social programs, has died at age 80. His wife, Carole Hyams, says Howard died Monday in Santa Rosa, California, after a long illness.

Superhero fans, movie fans and especially connoisseurs of black culture — American and African — are all eagerly awaiting the debut of Marvel’s “Black Panther” movie starring comic book’s first black superhero with an enthusiasm not often seen in American cinema.

Taking time to honor the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, former leaders and community members gathered in Oakland Saturday to honor the group’s history of social reform.