New West Oakland Mural Celebrates Black Joy and Women of Black Panther Party
"This is something people do not know. The history books do not carry us.” - Ericka Huggins
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Ericka Huggins: a Life in Learning
Ericka Huggins, the activist, educator, and poet, begins her class at Merritt College “The Black Panther Party: Strategies for Organizing the People” by having students gather their desks around in a circle. She reminds them[Read more]
‘Negroes With Guns:’ My Black Panther Reeducation
Today, mainstream media depicts a Panther demise into pimping, drug-dealing and gangbanging, but that history is questioned and should not remain as the Party’s legacy. In 1968, the police were the soldiers of a racist[Read more]
