*Jamie Foxx reunites with his “Ray” director Taylor Hackford for the film “Signal Hill,” the working title of the drama that will star Anthony Mackie as attorney Johnnie Cochran, reports Deadline. The ...

Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, former head of the Black Panthers in Los Angeles, insisted he was framed for the murder of a schoolteacher. (Joe Kennedy / Los Angeles Times) He was an uncommonly dangerous man ...

A federal judge has approved the $4.5-million settlement of a false imprisonment suit filed by former Black Panther Party leader Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, who spent 25 years in prison for a murder he ...

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The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, a former Black Panther Party leader who spent 27 years in prison on a California murder conviction that was later overturned, has died at the age of 63 in ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Former Black Panther Party leader Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years in prison for a crime he maintained he did not commit, ...