Black Panther Party Stalwarts to Celebrate 1966 Founding in Oakland, Programs that Aided the Poor
Free events, a conference and a gala will honor the party’s legacy, while three downtown Broadway blocks get an honorary Black Panther Party Boulevard name.
- Oakland is marking the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party this week with public events and the honorary renaming of three blocks of Broadway, between 14th and 17th streets, to Black Panther Party Boulevard.
- Co-Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale established the party in 1966 at Merritt College to advocate for political empowerment and address systemic disparities affecting Black residents through their Ten-Point Program.
- The Panthers launched 65 survival programs, including free food giveaways and medical clinics; the Seattle-based Carolyn Downs Family Medical Center remains the only original clinic still operating today.
- A four-day conference and gala organized by the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation and Bobby Seale Legacy Foundation headlines the weekend, with community gatherings at Bobby Hutton Memorial Park and film screenings at the Oakland Museum of California.
- Fredrika Newton, president of the Huey P. Newton Foundation, said the anniversary serves to inspire current organizing, noting parallels to the Black Lives Matter movement and urging young people to "apply them to the conditions today and organize.
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FILE - Huey Newton, Black Panther Party minister of defense, raises his arm as he is surrounded by the press at Philadelphia's International Airport, Sept. 4, 1970, upon his arrival for a convention in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy, File)
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The legacy of the Black Panther Party lives on six decades after its founding, in the work of a Seattle medical center started to address systemic health disparities in the African American community, particularly among Black children. Originally known as the Sidney Miller Free Medical Clinic in 1969, it put into practice the national Black...
A walk through historic Black Panther sites in Oakland, where the party was founded 60 years ago
Huey Newton's window continues efforts to preserve historic Black Panther Party sites in Oakland, where the controversial organization was founded 60 years ago.
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