The OCS Project is a multi-media research project designed to recover, preserve, and share the history and legacy of the award-winning elementary-level community school initiated by the Black Panther Party.
A presentation and moderated discussion about the Oakland Community School, The OCS Project, and the Donald Cunningham photographic archives featuring archivist Lisbet Tellefsen, historian Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest, former BPP member and OCS Director, ericka huggins, and OCS students Gregory B. Lewis and Erica Watkins.
The de Young Museum in San Francisco hosted an event honoring the Oakland Community School. It included an exhibit and a mock classroom experience featuring educator and former OCS director ericka huggins, OCS staff, parents, former students, and OCS Project director, Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest.
A book chapter co-authored by former OCS Director Ericka Huggins and historian Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest. The chapter was published in the anthology, Want to Start a Revolutionary? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle, edited by Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard (NYU Press).
The Women of the BPP Legacy Project is dedicated to recovering and sharing the history and legacy of women in the Black Panther Party.
Stephen Shames and ericka huggins (ACC Art Books 2022)
Angela LeBlanc-Ernest created and edited this video as an installation for the Free Library of Philadelphia's Comrade Sisters exhibit (March 22 - April 27, 2023). The exhibit opened the day the Free Library hosted a Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party Book Tour event. The video supplements the exhibit as a "now" component for visitors to see the women as they are today, after exploring the many images on display that show women of the BPP "then," during the 1960s and 1970s. The video builds on LeBlanc-Ernest's December 2022 Comrade Sisters Instagram campaign (@bppwomen).
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