Hella Black Podcast

Episode 3 of Tales Of The Town covers the student organizing history of the Black Panther Party’s co-founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, at Oakland City College in the early 1960’s. The Soul Students Advisory, the first iteration of a Black Student Union, paved the way for Black Student organizing across the world, and its impact is still felt today! This episode also looks at the Afrikan Black Coalitions fight to force the UC school system to divest from private prisons! Guests: Dar: Former BPP member, student at Merritt College during time of the Panthers Judy Juanita: Former BPP member, editor of Black Panther Party newspaper. Author. Professor at Laney College in Oakland. Anthony Williams: former organizer at UC Berkeley, PhD student at UCLA.

Oakland, an enclave for the Black radical tradition and the birthplace of the Black Panther Party. Over the years many have made the claims to follow in the tradition of the Panthers but few have been able to combine providing programs that meet the material needs of the people, with a concrete analysis of this racist capitalist country – People’s Programs has strived to do just that. Episode 2 of Tales Of The Town looks at the start of the Black Panther Party and the work of Oakland based organization, People’s Programs.

The first episode of the Tales Of The Town podcast examines the 1st and 2nd Great Migrations that brought Black Southerners in influx to the Bay Area - you get a look at the circumstances that made these people travel across the country in search of “freedom” and opportunities and the struggles they encountered upon arrival Guests: Auntie Anita: Abbas' great Aunt, she passed away last year. Migrated from Louisiana to Oakland. Community organizer and activist. Charlene Thomas: Delency great grandmother. Migrated from Port Aurthor Texas to Oakland Uncle Freddie: Abbas' Uncle. Artist and Fabricator. Oakland Native. Donna Murch: Professor of History at Rutgers University. Author of Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California Clarence Thomas: Author of “Mobilizing in Our Own Name: Million Worker March”. Longtime ILWU organizer and longshoreman. Delency's Uncle.

Introducing Tales of The Town, a new podcast and multimedia project about Black Oakland. This podcast is executive produced and hosted by Abbas Muntaqim and Delency Parham, and the senior producer is our good friend Maya Cueva, who is an award winning documentarian and audio engineer. Over the next 12 weeks, we will bring to you a highly produced podcast that tells over 100 years of Oakland history. There’s over 30 interviews, from our elders, ancestors, and peers, that tell the tales of the town. We are excited for you all, as our loyal patrons, to take part with us in this audio journey that tells Oakland history in a way that hasn’t been done before – before the stories are gone forever. Because you all are patrons, the announcement was posted here first, and will be public tomorrow. When it’s public, we ask you all to help support us and get the word out. This project is completely grassroots and INDEPENDENT!! And it will take the people’s support!! Tales of the Town is dropping 9/20, on all platforms! Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcast at.

This episode of Hella Black is an audio recording of Jalil Muntaqim's recent talk at People's Programs which commemorated Black August. Tap in expeditiously! Free the land!

On this episode we talk with RA about Muay Thai and why its important for Revolutionaries to train! S/o to our comrade Thai for guest hosting this episode!

On this episode of Hella Black we look into the current state of u.s. imperialism. tap in! expeditiously!!

On this episode of Hella Black we talk about our reflections on this Black August. Y'all tap in!

On this episode of Hella Black we talk about our recent trip to Ghana, South Afrika, and Nigeria.. tap in!

On this episode of Hella Black we talk with Sadiq about his time building with us in Oakland and how we must build unity across the imperial core and Africa. Tap in!