Leonardi, who wore a blue shirt and nitrile ... Where did the image of the black panther originate? “A white rooster was used by the Alabama Democratic Party as a white-supremacist symbol ...

Formed in Oakland in 1966, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was known for its radical ... black pants, powder blue shirts, black berets, dark sunglasses and Afros, and dared the world to tell ...

Fifty-six years ago, I walked into the Black Panther Party storefront headquarters on Grove Street — now Martin Luther King Jr. Way — in the heart of my native city of Oakland, California.

Ericka Huggins, Claudia Chesson-Williams and Yasmeen Majid were members of the Black Panther Party. Huggins joined the Black Panther Party in 1968 and spent 14 years with the organization in Oakland, ...

SEATTLE — Once a powerful force in Seattle, the Black Panther Party fought systemic injustice and uplifted Black communities. What many might not know is that their legacy lives on in some of ...

In the late 1960s, the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party distributed free breakfast to schoolchildren at a youth services center in North Lawndale. On Sunday, several former chapter ...