According to a shocking new report by The Nation, former Black Panther Party members have insisted that they are still being monitored by the FBI even though COINTELPRO was terminated back in 1971.

who would be murdered in his bed by Illinois law enforcement officers working together with the FBI. by Elaine Brown The [Black Panther] party reached out mostly to men, to young, black urban men ...

By late 1968, the FBI had added the Black Panther Party to its list of “black nationalist hate groups,” and Director J. Edgar Hoover instructed agents to “submit imaginative and hard-hitting ...

McEachin recounts the series of events that led her to becoming a lawyer and a public servant. The commonwealth's attorney also discusses grand juries, justice reform and surveillance.

on June 19 Livia Gershon Shaka King's upcoming film dramatizes Black Panther leader Fred Hampton's betrayal by an FBI informant ...

Edgar Hoover’s FBI, to disrupt and decimate groups Hoover deemed a threat. COINTELPRO “officially” operated between 1956 and 1971. In 1969, it focused on the Black Panther Party and ...

As part of WGN’s Black History Month coverage, Micah Materre hosted a half-hour special featuring an exclusive conversation with surviving members of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party.

Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland ... Law enforcement officials including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, saw the group as a national security ...