José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and ...

Events across the Chicago area Wednesday are marking 55 ... CPD and the FBI saw the then-deputy chairman of the National Black Panther Party as a threat, during the height of the civil rights ...

by Elaine Brown The [Black Panther] party reached out mostly to men ... And his house, that house on the West Side [of Chicago], was a horrible place to live. But he didn't live above, or elevate ...

The Young Lords, as transformed by Jiménez into an activist organization, found a purpose in particular as the Puerto Rican community was being pushed out of Lincoln Park in the late 60s.

Next Monday is also Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: a day to reflect on the contributions of the murdered civil rights leader.

The 15-term Congressman, who put the house up for sale on his 78th birthday in November, sold it for $795,000.

The Young Lords founder, who died Friday, inspired youth from different backgrounds to work together to fight for equality ...

José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez, civil rights activist and founder of the Young Lords Organization, died Friday, Jan. 10. He was 76.

at the time one of the most impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago. By 1968, the group became a human rights organization inspired by the Black Panther Party, according to the Library of Congress ...

founder of the Young Lords in Chicago-area Puerto Rican group, attends a news conference led by Bobby Rush, deputy defense minister of the Illinois Black Panther party, in Chicago, June 4 ...

at the time one of the most impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago. By 1968, the group became a human rights organization inspired by the Black Panther Party, according to the Library of Congress ...