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Though the Black Panther Party had experienced its most influential years in San Francisco and Oakland between 1967 and 1972, a lack of census data from non-decennial from NHGIS narrowed my quantitative GIS analysis solely to 1970. Despite this small window of information, the metadata I had applied as layers within ArcMap had provided me with a surprising amount of insight to the racial and economic landscape of Panther activities at the height of their potency as well as at the height of…

Music has been around for as many as 55,000 years. The egyptians, ancient greeks, romans and african slaves all had different forms of music. Much like today, we have several different types of music, country, rock, soft rock, gospel, jazz, pop, R&B but one the most controversial genres would be Hip-Hop and Rap along with urban black pop. Today, music is still pivotal. Music can personify people, give voice expressions to those who otherwise may not be heard. At the Super Bowl 50 halftime show…

Oakland Poetry: The Rise of Young Voices of Color Oakland is a community flourishing in the arts, poetry and literature kept alive by Young Artists and Poets. Many of these young poets have been historically ignored by Academia. The body of poetry in Oakland consists of oral/performance poetry and flourishes in communal spaces, spaces that work towards unifying the community and creating a safe environment for underrepresented and marginalized communities.From the beginning of the Black…

Moral panic can be defined in many different ways. One way where “Moral panic” can be better understood is by defining it as a concept as panic, fear, morals and/or “a state intervention greatly exceed the objectives threat posed to society by a particular individual or group” (Bonn Scott, Psychology today). It can also be defining as ideology of what’s wrong and and right beliefs. Like discussed in class, moral panics can be presented in both ideology and social justice. Although Professor…

Rios conducted his own study on treatment of young Latino boys who live in Oakland California. Rios chose Oakland to address the policing that occurs in his home town. The primary argument Rios determines for policing of this minority stems from the process of criminalization “Criminalization and punishment were practiced and perfected on Black populations. By the time a critical mass of poor Latino/as arrived in Oakland, the community and its institutions had a clear system by which to…

While at Merritt College and San Francisco State College, Newton studied law, even on his own time he went to the North Oakland Service Center Library to read about law. During his readings, he came across California’s gun laws. He learned that the law stated that an individual could carry a loaded gun in public if the weapon was not concealed, that it was illegal to keep…

leadership had been arrested, jailed or killed due to police and FBI persecution. Eventually, under the weight of such extreme, coordinated and relentless state repression, the BPP simply collapsed. Though there continued to be an organization in Oakland bearing the Black Panther name, after 1972, the BPP could no longer be considered a viable political…

team is run and the financial aspect of the game. Lewis relates how money is used by the Oakland Athletics in comparison to the other teams that have more money than them. The A’s didn’t have much money to work with, so they had to be creative and discover new ways to find the best quality players their money could buy. To accomplish this strategy the A’s hired Billy Beane to be the general manager of the Oakland A’s. Then later on had hired a man named Paul DePodesta, a recent Harvard…

Moneyball The 2011 motion picture Moneyball is based upon the Oakland Athletics 2002 baseball season. The movie opens with a quote by Mickey Mantle, “It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life” (as cited in De Luca, Horovitz, Pitt, & Miller, 2011). His words set the tone for movie as it focuses on the management side of baseball and the relationships of those involved with building a team. Faced with the lowest budget in the industry, Billy…

In the movie Moneyball, a drama from 2011 directed by Bennett Miller, it explains a struggle that the main character Billy Beane which is a general manager for the Oakland A’s encounters when choosing players for his team. Beane’s first problem is that he doesn’t have enough money to afford good players for his team, like for comparison the Yankees a team loaded with money. So him and Pete, a young man who knows numbers and stats are determined to find affordable players that are good enough to…