Black Panther Party

The suburban Chicago home where slain Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton grew up has been designated a historical landmark by the village of Maywood

Vandals defaced a sign and stone in Oakland where Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton’s bust will be installed.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Five decades later, never-before-seen photos are being unveiled to the public on Wednesday at the UC Berkeley school of journalism. The images feature the Black Panther Party and the group’s historic beginnings. The Black Panthers turn 50 on Saturday. Members are celebrating with a new book and photo exhibit called “Power to the People.” Both feature the works of photographer…