The shocking protest was aimed at state gun control legislation seeking to prevent the Black Panthers' police patrols, their practice of following officers in Black neighborhoods. Black Panther ...

(Wearing berets and armed with guns, party members stepped in as crossing guards ... Newton in 1984 and is now in her early 70s, the effort to create a park dedicated to the Black Panther Party is ...

Article highlights Li’l Bobby Hutton’s role as an early member of the Black Panther Party, and his tragic killing by police at age 17.