✊🏿 Higher Learning 📚
As part of their commitment to black communities, the Black Panther Party began liberation schools led by volunteers after school in storefronts, churches, and homes in 1969. Following these early schools and recognizing the failure of public schools to adequately prepare black youth for the life ahead of them, the BPP formed the Intercommunal Youth Institute (later renamed the Oakland Community School) in January 1971, to begin breaking this “seemingly endless cycle of oppression.”
