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 ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition has died. He was 76. His sister, Daisy ...

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 ...

I left the BPP about August of 1970. In 1974-75 Bobby Rush, former Illinois Black Panther Party's Deputy Minister of Defense ran for Democratic ward committeeman in Chicago's 2nd ward. I took part in ...

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 ...

founder of the Young Lords in Chicago-area Puerto Rican group, attends a news conference led by Bobby Rush, deputy defense minister of the Illinois Black Panther party, in Chicago, June 4 ...

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 ...