When examining social problems like mass incarceration, economic inequality, and community disenfranchisement, the most ...

In 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, Calif. The group became widely known for the striking image its members cultivated: black leather ...

The actress Jurnee Smollett, who is best known for her early roles in Full House and Eve’s Bayou and her more recent performance as Black Canary in Birds of Prey, hails from a family deeply involved i ...

And the most recent thing this institution of higher learning got right was the sponsoring of a Black History Month event that featured the civil and human rights activist and co-founder of the Black ...

Without Oliver Stone's intervention, a particular Spike Lee masterpiece would have looked very different. Read more about the experience here.

Bob Thiele had already spent three decades in the music business recording legendary jazz and pop artists when he started a ...

The Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 initiated a number of community programs aimed at addressing issues faced by Black communities ...

This month’s picks look at a political convention, the work of a cinematographer and the films of a revered pair of directors.

In 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, Calif. The group became widely known for the striking image its members cultivated: black ...

Of course, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, founders of the Black Panthers were Sigmas, and writer Zora Neale Hurston and actress Esther Rolle were Zetas. But let’s not miss that it was dudes who ...

(Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) Believing that health care is a basic human right, Dr. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation in 1971, one of the party’s 65 ...