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Women and the Black Panther Party’s Community Survival Programs featuring Ericka Huggins

2 May 2012. 0 comments

Laney College Library Event
Women and the Black Panther Party’s
Community Survival Programs
Featuring Ericka Huggins

Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 9:00 am
Laney Library Browsing Area

Ericka Huggins is an educator, former Black Panther Party member, political prisoner, human rights activist and poet. For the past 30 years Ericka has lectured throughout the United States on the restoration of human rights, whole child education, and, the role of spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting social change.

Ericka is currently a professor of Sociology at Laney College and Berkeley City College. She is also a professor in the Women’s Studies department at California State University-East Bay.

She teaches relaxation and resiliency skills in elementary and secondary schools as well as juvenile and adult prisons and jails.

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    Peralta News – 10th Oakland International Film Festival featured Peralta TV’s own documentary Merritt College: Home of the Black Panthers

    16 April 2012. 0 comments

    The 10th Oakland International Film Festival was full of promise this year and Peralta News was in the building for the festivities. Hosted by the Oakland Film Society, this annual event has been growing under the direction of David Roach. Over 60 films were screened and the Oakland Museum of California had one of it’s busiest weekends this spring. Peralta TV’s own documentary ‘Merritt College: Home of the Black Panthers’ was one of the featured documentaries shown with a host of talented and cinematic films, music videos, narrative features and sci-fi. For more information on the features premiered at the Festival visit OIFF.org.

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      Peralta News – Black History Month Kicks Off at Merritt College

      6 February 2012. 0 comments

      Black History Month is a celebrated time of the year when African Americans everywhere regroup and energize their shared destiny towards equality through progress and cultural reflection. The Black Panther Party was a major cultural icon and it was their creation of Ethnic Studies at Merritt College that was highlighted at the Feb 1st Rally. College and High School Students learned about the Panther’s educational Legacy in “MERRIT COLLEGE: HOME OF THE BLACK PANTHERS” a documentary produced by Peralta TV.

      After the film, attendees heard music, inspirational messages and were able to hear from the keynote speaker and co-founder of the Black Panthers, Bobby Seale.

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        Bobby Seale, founding member of the Black Panther Party, speaks at Merritt College

        3 February 2012. 0 comments

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          Peralta TV’s Black Panther Documentary Accepted For Consideration At Sundance

          11 October 2011. 0 comments

          We are pleased to announce that Peralta TV’s documentary, “Merritt College: Home of the Black Panthers,” has been accepted for consideration at the Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the country.

          The documentary, which won a national Gold Medallion Award in 2009 for the best college television/film production, is narrated by Congresswomen Barbara Lee and tells the story of the origins of the Black Panther Party at Merritt College through exclusive interviews and rare archival footage. The film, which was shown at the United Nations as part of events honoring the victims of slavery, features Bobby Seale, Richard Aoki, Ericka Huggins, David Hillard, Emory Douglas, Elbert “Big Man” Howard and other Party members as well as several past presidents of Merritt College, including Chancellor Wise Allen.

          A trailer for the film can be seen here: http://blackpanthersthemovie.com/

          The documentary’s IMDb page (still under construction) is here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2062588/

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