Bay Curious Presents Mindshift: The Black Panther Legacy and Oakland Community Schools

Bay Curious

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4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

When people think of the Black Panthers, most imagine militant Black men in berets carrying guns. While that's not an inaccurate picture, the Black Panthers did much more than just fight back against racist policing. They created a whole host of community programs. This week, we bring you an excerpt from the Mindshift podcast about one of them — an elementary school in Oakland that made a big impact on education. Additional Reading: 5 Ways the Black Panthers Shaped U.S. Schools Read a transcript of this episode Sign up for our newsletter Enter our Sierra Nevada Brewing company monthly trivia contest Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts This story was reported by Nimah Gobir. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale, and Ana De Almeida Amaral. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan, and the whole KQED family.

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0:00.0	When some people think of the Black Panther Party, they might envision black men in leather jackets and berets, carrying guns.
0:12.6	This was the militant image that appeared in photographs on the front pages of countless newspapers throughout the 1960s.
0:19.7	That whole decade was a period of social and cultural change.
0:24.2	There was the civil rights movement.
0:26.0	We will be able to transform the jangling discourse of our nation into a beautiful symphony of
0:32.8	brotherhood. Women's liberation.
0:35.1	For if they write for women, including equal pay.
0:38.7	It was a time when the very fabric of society was being questioned,
0:43.2	and people were having big ideas about how people think and how people are taught.
0:51.2	It was against this backdrop that the Black Power movement was getting traction.
0:55.4	We are oppressed.
0:58.0	We are exploited.
0:59.8	We are down-triving.
1:01.4	We are denied not only civil rights, but even human rights.
1:05.0	The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland in 1966 as a strategy for organizing against rampant police violence.
1:13.6	They believed in black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense against police brutality.
1:20.6	The first thing that drew me to the Black Panther Party that I always remember about it,
1:26.6	it said the Black Panther Party for self always remember about it. It said the Black Panther Party for
1:28.8	self-defense, and self-defense people get their hackles up about that. This is Erica Huggins.
1:35.7	She joined the Black Panther Party in 1968. People think that self-defense is physical. It can be
1:42.7	and needs to be when necessary. However, this was about
1:48.3	supporting people who live poor and or oppressed. We said, you cannot continue to kill us.
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