Chicago, Illinois, has a rich history of grassroots organizing. Notable examples are the Back of the Yards Neighborhood ...

Events across the Chicago area Wednesday are marking 55 ... CPD and the FBI saw the then-deputy chairman of the National Black Panther Party as a threat, during the height of the civil rights ...

at the time one of the most impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago. By 1968, the group became a human rights organization inspired by the Black Panther Party, according to the Library of Congress ...

by Elaine Brown The [Black Panther] party reached out mostly to men ... And his house, that house on the West Side [of Chicago], was a horrible place to live. But he didn't live above, or elevate ...

Bobby Rush, deputy defense minister of the Illinois Black Panther Party, reads a statement on June 4, 1969, during a news conference following an early morning raid on the Chicago Panther ...

Just a few blocks from the boulevard at 301 High Street is Rowan Art Gallery and Museum. On Jan. 27, they opened their latest ...

at the time one of the most impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago. Inspired by the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords challenged institutional racism and police brutality and advocated for ...