The Latest Breaking News from the Black Panther Party

Assata Shakur dies at 78 in Cuba. Explore her real connection to Tupac Shakur and the 1973 case that placed her on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

Shakur spent decades exiled after she was convicted of killing a state trooper in 1977 and escaped from prison

Video uploaded to TikTok showed 81-year-old Black Panther founder David Hilliard endorsing the now-convicted former president

Showrunner Janine Sherman Barrois on the Apple TV+ series that explores one slice of the Black Panthers' history

When does lawful protest become criminal activity? That question is at issue in Atlanta, where 57 people have been indicted and arraigned on racketeering charges for actions related to their protest against a planned police and firefighter training center that critics call “Cop City.”

A push to memorialize the Illinois Black Panther Party on the National Register of Historic Places has advanced to the national level.

Let’s create a curriculum on Fred Hampton’s life. In contrast to the myth of the “gun-toting” Black Panthers, they laid the groundwork for many of the social service programs we know today, such as school breakfasts, day care and sickle cell testing.

“Man enough to pull a gun, be man enough to squeeze it,” rapped NBA superstar Allen Iverson on his song “40 Bars.”

WASHINGTON — Barbara Lee was in her early 20s, a single mother of two young boys, attending Mills College in Oakland, California. The future California congresswoman needed public assistance and food stamps. She couldn’t afford child care, so often her children would attend classes with her.