Join us on Monday, August 26, for presentations by and conversations with our two summer 2024 BPOCSRC interns.

The OCS Project Director, Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest and OCS director, Ericka Huggins, contribute to a podcast and article about community schooling and the model established for community schooling by OCS.

Performing artist, author, and educator, Meres-Sia Gabriel, shares her memories of attending the Oakland Community School, reflects on her educational experiences and the trajectory that led her to be both an educator and an artist, and discusses the development of her one-woman show, "I Was There, Too: A Firsthand Account of Growing Up In the Black Panther Party."

Pam Ward, a young single mother when she learned about the Oakland Community School, gained invaluable knowledge teaching at OCS and as a comrade in the revolutionary Black Panther Party. She eventually earned a Master’s degree from Stanford University and has created a life-long commitment to the well-being of community.

In 2009, ericka huggins and Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest co-authored a book chapter about women and the Oakland Community School. OCS Project Director LeBlanc-Ernest will revisit that article in light of the OCS archival material that has come available since the original article was published 15 years ago in Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle (eds. Gore, Theoharis, and Woodard, NYU Press, 2009). RSVP using link below.