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By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - Madalynn Rucker, founder of ONTRACK Program Resources, is a Black Panther activist who is working to provide mental health services to the Black community, while also addressing the issues of poverty, lack of opportunities, overpolicing and mass incarceration.
"Happy Birthday, Huey" will be celebrated Saturday, Feb. 17. Activities include the showing of a film, and the following night at the New Parkway Theatre in Oakland, filmmaker Cat Brooks will also display a movie she produced on Huey P. Newton.
Article: I USED CRITICAL RACE THEORY FOR 23 YEARS IN THE New York City PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS AND DIDN T EVEN KNOW IT! - This essay is intended as a primer of sorts on critical race theory (CRT), what it is, why it s under attack, giving an historical overview of the emergence of white suppremacy and how the basic CRT tenets are essential to any truthful accounting of u.s. history
Article: I USED CRITICAL RACE THEORY FOR 23 YEARS IN THE New York City PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS AND DIDN T EVEN KNOW IT! - This essay is intended as a primer of sorts on critical race theory (CRT), what it is, why it s under attack, giving an historical overview of the emergence of white suppremacy and how the basic CRT tenets are essential to any truthful accounting of u.s. history
From community to community, from city to city, from state to state, across this racist nation. so we can have the power in our hand. - [hasan] the lowndes county freedom organization serves as the inspiration for the black panther party for self-defense organized in oakland, california in 1966, but there are some real differences. while self defense was central to the movement experience in lowndes county, they did not organize around the gun, but in oakland, california, it was different. - [singers] revolution has come. - [crowd] out the pig! - [singers] revolution has come. - [crowd] out the pig! - [singers] time to pick up the guns. - [crowd] out the pig! - [hasan] they re actually using displays of guns to back down the police, but then also to organize, to inspire, to rally african americans. the impetus was more about community programs and community
No city has played a larger role in creating the Black Lives Matter movement than Oakland, California. In 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale created the Black Panther Party For Self Defense there. I.