She and Fred Hampton Jr. – who shares his father’s honorific, Chairman Fred – have a deep appreciation for the movie, as well as the attention it has drawn to Hampton Sr.’s legacy and the ...

Fred Hampton remembered as ‘focused, caring’ visionary Fellow Black Panther Billy “Che” Brooks said one question about the party’s leader has plucked at his nerves since Hampton was ...

Exactly 48 years ago, Black Panthers Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, were shot to death by Chicago police. At around 5 a.m. on December 4, 1969, 14 police officers raided Hampton's apartment ...

On December 4, 1969, Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were drugged and murdered by the Chicago Police Department. There have been documentaries and a feature film about the ...

Fred Hampton, 21, was killed in his sleep. Akua Njeri says she remembers it was “seriously cold” the night her then-boyfriend Fred Hampton, 21, was killed in his sleep in a raid organized by ...

Let’s create a curriculum on Fred Hampton’s life. In contrast to the myth of the “gun-toting” Black Panthers, they laid the groundwork for many of the social service programs we know today ...

He is an Oscar nominee for a previous role in "Get Out," and he is now playing Fred Hampton in the new film "Judas And The Black Messiah." It is in theaters and streaming now on HBO Max.

MAYWOOD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois childhood home of Fred Hampton, an iconic Black Panther Party leader who was shot and killed during a 1969 police raid of his Chicago apartment, has been ...