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Brown Berets and Black Panther imagery resurface amid stepped-up ICE enforcement

These groups present themselves as immigrant-rights defenders, not paramilitary forces — but the names carry historic weight.

Axios · Jan 31

Oakland's new mayor Barbara Lee fights high crime and tells federal law enforcement to stay away

Barbara Lee has been Oakland’s mayor for half a year

The Independent UK · Nov 21, 2025

Assata Shakur Dies in Exile at 78 — Inside Her Real Connection to Tupac and the Crime That Put Her on the FBI's Most Wanted List

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.

International Business Times UK · Sep 27, 2025

Prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader José “Cha Cha” Jiménez dies at 76

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

The Independent UK · Jan 14, 2025

Video of Black Panthers founder claiming to support Trump is ‘a lie’, says grandson

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

The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2024

Hollywood, a fake film & Huey P. Newton

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

Salon · May 28, 2024

A First Amendment battle looms in Georgia, where the state is framing opposition to a police training complex as a criminal conspiracy

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.”

The Conversation · Dec 1, 2023

Black Panthers’ legacy, image at issue in feud over historic sites

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

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 24, 2023

Teach the real legacy of Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers to inspire our youth

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 28, 2023

Ja Morant shows how a 'good guy with a gun' can never be Black

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

The Conversation · Jun 23, 2023