In the mid-1960s, the Black Panthers came to symbolize black militant power. They rejected the nonviolence of earlier civil rights campaigners and promoted a radical socialist agenda.

For decades, a mysterious figure dressed in black, his features cloaked by a wide-brimmed hat and scarf, crept into a churchyard to lay three roses and a bottle of cognac at the grave of Edgar ...

“Edgar Hoover was a black man passing for white,” says Millie McGhee, an African-American living in Southern Maryland, who has written two books Secrets Uncovered: J.Edgar Hoover-The Relative ...

FBI director J. Edgar Hoover speaks to the Senate Crime Investigating Committee, urging them to continue its exposure of organized crime in Washington, D.C., on March 26, 1951.

The man Thurmond was attacking was not Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In fact Thurmond used King’s own words – secretly recorded by J.Edgar Hoover – in his attacks against the march’s deputy ...

The first major biography of the F.B.I. director in nearly 30 years, the book by Beverly Gage revises our conception of a man often remembered as little more than a cartoon villain.

The shelves are laden with books about Hoover and his bureau—idolatrous, iconoclastic, one even claiming the imperious G-man liked to prance around after hours in full drag. But there has never ...