In the mid-1960s, a new force emerged in the fight for racial justice in America. At the forefront of this movement was Huey ...

Massive street protests outside of the courthouse where Huey P. Newton was on trial for murder. Former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver describes the massive protests and clashes with police outside ...

American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, ...

Fredrika Newton, head of The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation and Newton’s widow, will give Bryn Mawr College’s annual Black History Month keynote address at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28, in the Great Hall ...

The Black Panther Party and its co-founder Huey P. Newton drew both allies and adversaries—most notably, the FBI—as they ...

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As a member of the original chapter of the group (then known as the Black Panther Party for Self Defense), which her late husband Huey P. Newton co-founded in Oakland in 1966, Newton spent long hours ...

In this penetrative BBC documentary, filmmaker Dan Murdoch joins members of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, a group named after Black Panther co-founder Huey Percy Newton, to discover how far they ...

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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in his mid-20s when he rose to prominence as the father of the American Civil Rights Movement. The late U.S. Rep John Lewis was just 21 years old when he became one of ...