This is a very special holiday,” Fife said, and challenged the crowd to work for change in the city. The bronze of Newton is being created by sculptor Dana King, who on Wednesday said, “The Panthers were about people.”
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Read MoreDr. Huey P. Newton, one of the Co-Founders of The Black Panther Party, now has a street renamed after him just less than 2 miles away from the Panther’s former headquarters in West Oakland.
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Read MoreResidents, activists, city officials, and community leaders gathered in West Oakland on Wednesday to dedicate a three-block section of Ninth Street to Huey P. Newton, the revolutionary Black leader who, together with Bobby Seale, co-founded The Black Panther Party in Oakland in 1966. The small stretch of street has been officially renamed Dr. Huey P. Newton Way.
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Read MoreOakland has renamed a street after Black Panther Party co-founder Dr. Huey P. Newton -- who established numerous community support programs, medical clinics, food banks, and a newspaper.
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Read MoreOAKLAND — On what would have been former Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton’s 79th birthday, a section of a West Oakland street now bears his name. Fredrika Newton, widow of Newton, attended a dedication ceremony Wednesday morning at the corner of Mandela Parkway and 9th Street, just a block from where he was gunned down in 1989.
Read MoreOur next initiative is the commission of renowned sculptor and artist Dana King to create a bust of Huey, which will be installed on landscaped walkway at the head of a street recently named for Huey in West Oakland.
Read MoreThe toppling of Confederate statues during nationwide protests against racial injustice brought renewed attention to the importance of U.S. public monuments, very few of which were made by Black sculptors.
“Space is power. When a Black body in bronze is placed publicly, that story is magnified because of the powerful space,” said sculptor Dana King of Oakland, California.
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Read More“My hope is that the youth have a lineage that they can claim and actually put their hands on and learn from,” said HPNF President Fredrika Newton.
Read MoreShe sees a connection between the Black Panthers’ fight for social justice for African Americans in the late 1960s and the battle she and her neighbors face just to stay in West Oakland, where home prices are skyrocketing and wealthy buyers are moving in.
Read MoreFredrika Newton met her late husband, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, when she was a college student. From that chance meeting, came a relationship for the history books.
Read MoreThe Huey P. Newton Foundation was started by David Hilliard and Fredrika Newton to develop and sponsor cultural, historical and educational programs and institutions consistant with the theories and teaching of Huey Newton and the philosophy and ideology of the Black Panther Party.
Read MoreThe African American Museum & Library at Oakland announces a public conversation on Saturday, August 17 (2 p.m. - 4 p.m.) ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of the slain political icon, Dr. Huey P. Newton.
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