Three former political activists have revealed their part in a brazen 1971 burglary of an FBI office outside Philadelphia, where they stole as many as 1,000 documents, enraging FBI director J. Edgar ...

With the passing of Assata Shakur and the current administration openly targeting opponents, we decided to take a look at how FBI’s COINTELPRO program targeted, spied on, and sabotaged Black activists ...

A bill (HB 945) that would create a statewide counterterrorism and counterintelligence unit within the Florida Department of ...

In October 2017, a leaked memo entitled, “Black Identity Extremist Intelligent Assessment” revealed a government surveillance program targeting black activist liberation movements. Eddie Conway talks ...

Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right. Malik Rahim. On a warm afternoon in 1970, Cleo Silvers, then a young ...

Shaka King’s new, Academy Award-winning film “Judas and the Black Messiah” is introducing a new generation to an especially dark chapter of American history — the FBI’s secretive COINTELPRO program ...

In light of the Bush administration's secret eavedropping efforts, Farai Chideya takes an in-depth look at COINTELPRO. The 1960s-era federal surveillance program that targeted, among others, the Rev.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peacock is developing a drama series about the FBI’s notorious COINTELPRO program, Variety has learned exclusively. Set in 1965, ...

The burglars who broke into an FBI office in 1971 and made off with tons of documents have come forward nearly forty years after their score helped expose J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau's widespread ...