U.S. Grant to Berkeley on Black Panthers Revoked

The U.S. National Park Service awarded -- and then revoked -- a $98,000 grant to a project led by a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, to study and "memorialize" the history of the Black Panther Party in the Bay Area, where the group had its greatest influence, the Bay Area News Group reported. The service has not indicated why the grant was revoked. But the action followed opposition to the grant on conservative websites and a letter to President Trump from the Fraternal Order of Police, which called the Black Panther Party "a militant anti-American group" responsible for the killings of law enforcement officers.