Today marks the birthday of legendary Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton ... many of Hampton’s quotes come from just one speech, when he presented remarks in the spring of 1967.

Take, for instance, the story of a group popularly known for militancy, not love: the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Panthers, in addition to their bold ideas about Black revolution and self ...

In fact, the official name of the group, which was created by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in 1966, the year before I joined, was The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. In time, I would come to ...

and critically wounding others while the group was sleeping. The FBI also launched an aggressive counter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO) aimed at dismantling the Black Panther Party through ...