for black freedom and equality. black oaklanders know the reality of systemic discrimination. back in the 1960s, one response was the creation of the radical and controversial black panther party. it was founded by men. some of its key leaders were women. one of them, my guest today, ericka huggins. she spent two years imprisoned and she became a symbol of the black panther struggle. looking around oakland today, has anything really changed? ericka huggins, welcome to hardtalk. well, thank you! it s an honour to be here. it is a great pleasure to have you on the show. i want to take you back to your years as a leader in the black panther party. when you reflect on those years now, does it feel to you like ancient history, or part of a struggle that continues till today? well, it certainly doesn t feel like ancient history because the life that i lived and that all of my friends lived at that time stays with me. it s a very pivotal part of my life. and i think that history som
leaders were women. one of them, my guest today, ericka huggins. she spent two years imprisoned and she became a symbol of the black panther struggle. looking around oakland today, has anything really changed? ericka huggins, welcome to hardtalk. well, thank you! it s an honour to be here. it is a great pleasure to have you on the show. i want to take you back to your years as a leader in the black panther party. when you reflect on those years now, does it feel to you like ancient history, or part of a struggle that continues till today? well, it certainly doesn t feel like ancient history because the life that i lived and that all of my friends lived at that time stays with me. it s a very pivotal part of my life. and i think that history sometimes. well, let me say, i have a particular view of history, that it doesn t happen in segments, that it flows like a river. so i m still in the river and, um, doing the best i can to uplift humanity, like i did then. let s take you b
Heritage month. This is about 90 minutes. Good afternoon, and welcome back. This is our next panel in the afternoon. Organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions in the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. Before we get started i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or this how it came about like a lot of great ideas, i came across this book doing a search in the catalog. And this is many months ago we were kind of thinking about what do we want to do. There are so many books that come out on if Civil Rights Movement every year. We thought lets focus on some that are kind of different and interesting that kind of change how we think about the movement, kind of up in our understanding of it. When we came across this one. It has a great cover art. We loved how she was looking at these groups in an area we dont often think about and how these two groups came together in their struggles. So dr. Rice is going to be our first speaker
Afternoon. Organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions in the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. Before we get started i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or this how it came about like a lot of great ideas, i came across this book doing a search in the catalog. And this is many months ago we were kind of thinking about what do we want to do. There are so many books that come out on if Civil Rights Movement every year. We thought lets focus on some that are kind of different and interesting that kind of change how we think about the movement, kind of up in our understanding of it. Hen we came across this one. It has a great cover art. We loved how she was looking at these groups in an area we dont often think about and how these two groups came together in their struggles. So dr. Rice is going to be our first speaker. She earned her ph. D. From berkeley. Shes now a professor in ohio. Shes taught there since 2007. This is
The symposium to Mark National heritage month. Its about half an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome back. This is our next panel in the afternoon session of this symposium organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions and the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. Before we get started, i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or whole symposium and how it came about. Like a lot of great ideas that come about the library, came across this book just doing a search in the catalog, and this is many months ago. We were kind of thinking about what do we want to do for this Public Program series, and theres so many books that come out on the Civil Rights Movement every year. We thought, well, lets focus on some that are kind of different and interesting that kind of change how we think about the movement, kind of upend our understanding of it, and so when we came across this one by lorne ariza we got excited, not just because it had such g