✊🏾🖤✨ The Black Panthers’, Oakland Community School (OCS) was the first school in THE COUNTRY to provide breakfast for its students, leading to the nation’s requirement to do the same for students in public schools. The longest running social service program by the Black Panthers, started in the Oakland Community School (OCS), California. In 1971, the Oakland, CA chapter of the Black Panther Party, founded the full time liberation day school. It operated for eleven years and served as a model f

We learned so much at our staff visit to @westoaklandmuralproject ! The Black Panthers faced violent state repression, but their deep legacy of community self-determination lives on. This mini museum is such a gem of West Oakland, and it might not be here forever, so if you’ve been meaning to visit, now’s the time. | West Oakland EIP

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Gallery of California Art - Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)