Austin, a historian at Arizona State University and author of the 2006 book “Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party.” “They made it clear that they were ...

(RNS) — In “Black Panther Woman,” Mary Frances Phillips has written the first biography of Black Panther Party member Ericka Huggins, who is now 77 and living in California. The book ...

Newton has been working with other Panther Party veterans to add depth and nuance to history books. "[The media] didn't portray a brother as anything other than a scary, angry Black man with a gun.