https://padlet.com/brianaghan2/1x5op2y40sjo en-us 2017-03-28 18:56:04 UTC 2017-04-06 20:38:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png brianaghan2 https://padlet.com/brianaghan2/1x5op2y40sjo/wish/164987235
Huey Percy Newton was an African American activist best known for founding the militant, aggressive, Black Panther Party in 1969 in Oakland, California, along with Bobby Seale. In the mid 1960’s, Huey decided to pursue his education at Merritt college. In September of 1962, he attended a rally protesting president Kennedy’s administration on the blockade of Cuba where he met Bobby Seale. They were both involved in political groups before they decided to create their own. They decided they would call their group the “Black Panther Party for Self-Defense,” which was created to protect black people from police brutality. What was important and valuable about them was their commitment to serve black communities through a variety of social programs. One of their most successful social programs was the Free Breakfast for Children Program, which provided food for children across the United States. In January of 1969, on the first day of putting the program to the test, they served 11 children, but by the end of the end of the week, they served 135 children. Not only did they become overwhelmingly successful, but it also became mandatory for all chapters to have a Free Breakfast for Children Program. The breakfast program became such a huge deal, that it could be found in every city with a BPP chapter including Philadelphia, Seattle, and New York City. ]]> 2017-04-05 19:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaghan2/1x5op2y40sjo/wish/164987235 brianaghan2 https://padlet.com/brianaghan2/1x5op2y40sjo/wish/164988995       Malcolm X was an African American Civil Rights Activist and Minister. Malcolm was a black nationalist leader who served as a spokesmen for the Nation of Islam during the 1950’s and 60’s. He also fought for black rights, “by any means necessary.” One of his tactics were violence, which was the opposite of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  This photograph, taken in 1963, shows Malcolm X holding a newspaper with the headline, “Seven unarmed Negros shot in cold blood by Los Angeles police.” This photograph connects to now because to this day we still struggle with police brutality where unarmed black youth are beat or shot and killed by white police for no apparent reason other than the fact that they were black. ]]> 2017-04-05 19:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaghan2/1x5op2y40sjo/wish/164988995 brianaghan2 https://padlet.com/brianaghan2/1x5op2y40sjo/wish/164989593 The Free Breakfast for School Children Program founded in October of 1966, in Oakland California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale is my event. It was a community service program run by the Black Panther Party as an early manifestation of the social mission envisioned. The picture above shows black children being fed because of the program. This is happening during the sixties, 1966 to be exact. Also taken in a all black school that is segregated from the whites as all the children in the picture are black. This quote is describing the positive outcome of this program has on the school children but only with your help. Huey Newton was the co founder of the Black Panther that helped the program from being shut down by the bureau because of the money that it cost to keep the program up. When I look at this photo, it shows, the love and support that children need to stay fed by those who can help. Today we don't struggle with this problem of wanting to shut down programs that help feed children at school because of the help with tax payers money keeping it afloat. Though the other co founder of the Black Panthers that helped support the free breakfast program was Bobby Seale that helped the program from being shut down also. This picture shows the outcome of their hard work being put to good use for the children who need to fed.

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The Watt riots took place on the corner of Avalon and 116th St in South Central Los Angeles. There was about 200 stores that were damages, around 4000 people that were arrested, 1032 were injured, and 34 people died during the Watt riots. This all started when the California Highway Patrol pulled over Marquette Frye for reckless driving and the 2 officers got into a scuffle with the man and a crowd gathered around them. The crowd grew very quickly and at the time there was racial discrimination and everyone reach the breaking point and  within a few hours the riot had started. This connects to something today because a lot of the people thought that the police were using excessive force on the one man. There have been reports of police brutality recently when certain people that get pulled over by officers. They assumed that those people were hiding something, or that they were resisting arrest. Some of the officers even went to the extent to say that the person was reaching for a weapon and opened fire on them a lot of which resulted in death. This is what happened during the Watt riots with the all the officers that were there to try and stop the riot. They had to use excessive force for them to even have a chance of controlling the riots but it didn’t work. There have also be riots in Oakland after Donald Trump was elected. They originally started off as peaceful protests became violent when protesters started lighting trash cans and cars on fire. The reason for this riot was because they all didn’t want Donald Trump to be their president. ]]> 2017-04-06 20:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/brianaghan2/1x5op2y40sjo/wish/165263754