On Dec. 4, 1969, a pivotal moment in American civil rights history unfolded. Mark Clark, the defense captain of the Peoria, Ill., branch of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and Fred Hampton, chairman of ...

CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) -- Fred Hampton Sr., a Black Panther Party leader who was shot and killed in Chicago during a 1969 police raid, received an honorary street name on Saturday on the Near West ...

According to Jakobi Williams, a professor and historian, it was Hampton's work with the Rainbow Coalition that led to his assassination On Dec. 5, several events in the City of Chicago are set to ...

The real Deborah Johnson hasn't watched the scene in "Judas and the Black Messiah" where a cop puts a gun to her pregnant belly after a predawn raid that killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. The ...

The thrilling true story Judas & The Black Messiah recounts the activism and violent suppression of the Black Panther Party's Illinois chapter in the late 1960s, leading to the death of leader Fred ...