On December 4, 1969, Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were drugged and murdered by the Chicago Police ...

Events across the Chicago area Wednesday are marking 55 years since Fred Hampton's death. The civil rights leader and Black Panther chairman was killed in a Chicago police and FBI raid, when he was 21 ...

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 ...

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Daniel Kaluuya portrays Fred Hampton in the upcoming film Judas and the Black Messiah. Ahead of the release of Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya recently spoke about portraying Fred Hampton, ...

They hope the film "Judas and the Black Messiah" will help people learn more. In the wake of the film "Judas and the Black Messiah," increased attention has been brought to the story of Chairman Fred ...

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 ...

The childhood home of Fred Hampton will now serve as a museum, community garden, and recording studio. With the release of Judas and the Black Messiah over the weekend, millions of people were likely ...

The Athens-Clarke County Library hosted the Rainbow Coalition Potluck in honor of Fred Hampton, a prominent civil rights activist and revolutionary socialist, on Sunday, Aug. 31. Organized jointly by ...