60th Anniversary Celebration of the Oakland Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party changed what people believed was possible. Founded in Oakland in 1966, the Party confronted police violence and state repression, but its legacy reaches far beyond resistance alone. The Panthers built survival programs that fed children before school, opened community health clinics, organized around sickle cell anemia, created schools that reimagined education, supported prisoners and their families, and advanced self-defense as both a political principle and a practical response to terror. They insisted that Black people had the right not only to survive, but to live with dignity, political clarity, and collective power. The Party also understood that Black struggle in the United States was connected to liberation movements around the world. Its politics were international. Its vision was global. From anti-colonial struggles in Africa to revolutionary movements in Asia, Latin America, and beyond, the Panthers located Black freedom within a larger fight against