As a teenage criminal, William O’Neal was recruited to infiltrate the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party. He died a conflicted man by suicide over two decades later.
The legacy of rainbow coalition politics has deep roots in Chicago, stretching from its origins in the city's Black Panther Party chapter to Barack Obama's historic presidential wins.
Akua Njeri, who went by Deborah Johnson in 1969 at the time of Fred Hampton's killing by law enforcement in his home, has fought for social justice her entire life.
In a pre-dawn raid in December 1969, a team of law enforcement officials descended on the Chicago apartment of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party's chairman and shot him dead.
