This marks the 46th yr since the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland in 1966, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. There will be a celebration at Oscar Grant Plaza in front of City Hall on Saturday October 13th from 12pm until 3pm with the program starting at 1pm. There will be music,poetry, speakers. The BPP Alumni committee will be giving certificates out for community service awards, and one of the main award winners is the SF Bay View newspaper owned and operated by Willie and Mary Ratcliff.
Geoffrey's Inner Circle will host a film showing and Booking signings following the event at Oscar Grant Plaza Elbert"Big Man" Howard will speak at 3pm about this experiences in the BPP and about the writing of his brother" Panther On the Prowl" Big Man was a original Panther, help start the BPP.Other authors will be Steve McCuthen writer of " We were free for a while" and Meres Sia Gilbert will be there to do poems from her book "Twirl in the Smoke".Geoffrey's is located one block from Oscar Grant Plaza at 410 14th st, right off Broadway
For more information go to www.itsabouttimepp.com or call 916-455-0908
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