On Wednesday, Oct. 22, the City of Oakland will celebrate the 89th birthday of Black Panther Party cofounder Bobby Seale with ...

Reginald Hudlin, the legendary writer Marvel’s Black Panther comics, reflects on Wakanda, and inspiring a new generation of ...

Adopting icons of American patriotism is often a smart tactical choice for protest movements. Some of the most successful ...

Charlotte Hill O’Neal is known by several names. In Northern Tanzania, where she has lived for decades, she is known as “Mama ...

For the event, she wore a black transparent gown and accessorized with a tiny LV purse. Days earlier, she attended the Louis Vuitton spring/summer 2026 show and wore a fully-knit ensemble from the ...

While the Black community was honoring the life of Assata Shakur, former Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army, FBI Director Kash Patel went out of his way to slam anyone remembering ...

Joanne Chesimard, who used the name Assata Shakur and was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, leaves Middlesex County courthouse, in New Brunswick, N.J., April 25, 1977.

Assata Shakur, the Black revolutionary and godmother to Tupac Shakur, has died, Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported last Friday, September 26. A cause of death was not specified beyond “health ...

The Black liberation activist Assata Shakur died on September 25, 2025, at the age of 78. She passed away in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984 after escaping the U.S. prison system, ...

Black mayors leading some of the nation’s largest cities came together during the 54th Black Congressional Caucus Annual Legislative Conference, vowing to continue to stand up against the Trump ...

Assata Shakur recently passed away from “health concerns and advanced age,” according to a statement from Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Shakur was 78. But, with Assata’s name now in headlines, ...