Community journalism inspired by the original Black Panther ten point platform and the legacy of the Black Panther newspaper.
Moms 4 Housing Create Blueprint for Effective Housing Advocacy
MLK Day Reimagined
Housing Advocates Use Court System Against City of Oakland
Oakland Celebrates Weekend of Black Liberation and Calls for Unity with all Communities
Elbert “Big Man” Howard’s Black Panther Memorial Marks History
BBQing While Black Part 2 Brought the Vibe and the Politics
Oakland Organizers Take Action After BBQ Harassment at Lake Merritt
“No parent wants their child to be mislabeled. I refused to accept that and they learned the hard way that I was not that parent they could play with.” – Joy Elan.
Joy Elan is an Oakland based writer with a daughter who was misdiagnosed in her previous school as autistic. Elan describes why it was important for her to challenge that label while describing the years long effort to change take the label off her daughters school record.
I’ve been standing in the middle of a homeless crisis, watching how everyone is responding to it. On one side are the politicians talking, taking too long to do anything about it. On the other side, we have groups of activists and organizations taking care of homeless encampments helping them relocate, spilling onto the city hall steps near the line where the politicians stand.
Since Dominique Walker of Moms 4 Housing moved into a vacant house on Magnolia Street with her children and several other women from the advocacy group on Nov. 18, 2019, a movement began to build in support of their messaging.
A unified mix of Oakland advocate groups descended on a luxury high-rise to spotlight a building boom they say is not intended to house locals—creating more homelessness and forcing many to leave the city.
Indigenous leaders honor Standing Rock, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) and the American Indian Movement It was a cold and rainy morning in San
Originally published in print for Laney Tower on Jan. 31, 2019. Hundreds of people gathered at Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza Jan. 21 for an all-day
On a corner of the neighborhood of Brookfield, a plot of public land has been claimed by housing advocates in East Oakland, CA for homeless
October 15, 1966, the Black Panther Party was born in Oakland, CA. October 13 and 14, 2018, we were celebrating a movement that changed everyone’s
What is the Black Literary Collective? How did you come up with the concept? The Black Literary Collective (BLC) is a group of extremely diverse
Original Black Panther party members gathered in honor of the history and life of one of their founding members at Lil Bobby Hutton Park, also
