It was the first of 13 plaques to be placed around Chicago denoting historic sites of the Black Panther Party. They were ...

As part of WGN’s Black History Month coverage, Micah Materre hosted a half-hour special featuring an exclusive conversation with surviving members of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party.

LOS ANGELES -- "Judas and the Black Messiah," directed by Shaka King, dramatizes the life and death of Fred Hampton, the former chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party who was 21 years old ...

The Illinois childhood home of Hampton, an iconic Black Panther Party leader who was shot and killed during a 1969 police raid of his Chicago apartment, has been designated a historical landmark ...

Black history in Illinois is rather grim due to the Black Codes initiated in the middle 1800s. The codes extended a complete prohibition against black immigration into the state. The ...

ST. LOUIS — Brooklyn, Illinois is a beacon of resilience and freedom. As the oldest Black town in the United States, Brooklyn also helped form the 'tracks' that made up the Underground Railroad ...