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Honoring Our Past, Fighting for Our Future ✊🏾📚 This Black History Month, we’re highlighting Black History in Education—connecting the struggles, victories, and ongoing fight for police-free schools to BOP’s work for true educational justice. #PoliceFreeSchools

"When The Roots Are Deep There Is No Reason To Fear The Wind”- African proverb Habari Gani? Happy Kwanzaa Family ✊🏾

Writer, Activist, Revered Poet, Black Arts Movement Icon. Yesterday, ancestordom welcomed the beloved Nikki Giovanni. 🕊Wishing Nikki a soft passage into the ancestral realm. " i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live" —Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry

We, the people, have a choice and opportunity to disrupt this social norm and choose to invest where it matters—to pour our dollars directly into community-led solutions. Give to Black Organizing Project today & help us transform systems! 💜bit.ly/GIVEBOP23

Your donations power a vision of true racial, social, & economic justice that rebuilds the spirit & foundation of our community & transforms the lives of Black people & all people. 🧡Help us build this vision of Black Sanctuary by donating this week. bit.ly/GIVEBOP23

HAPPY GFR DAY! Can you believe it's already been 4 years since our George Floyd Resolution was passed, making Oakland Schools entirely police free !!! In honor of GFR Day, we are releasing our special edition OUSD Police-Free Shirts! Grab one today! gfranniversary.com

Last month, BOP organizers and members made a visit to the State Capital to support CA Assembly Bill 2441. 🎉As cosponsors of this bill, we are happy to announce that AB2441 has PASSED the California assembly and is making its way to the CA State Senate!

" Our progress in Oakland has shown us what works to transform local systems that punish Black youth and communities of color: Put young people, parents, and community members at the center of the work. " yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024…

Special Shout Out to Community Member Victor Vasquez for his impeccable words and reflections as a Skyline Alumni. (See Open Letter) We are better together, Oakland. 💜🖤

Our hearts go out to the students and families of Skyline High School. We know there are better days on the horizon, and we will continue to do our part to achieve better, safer schools in OUSD.

RIGHT NOW Police Free Schools Organizers and Allies are in Sacramento at a hearing to voice their opposition for the proposed CA Bill 3038— a bill that would require all CA schools to have at least one armed police officer on campus. Full Statement: blackorganizingproject.org/b…

4 years ago today, 26 year old Breonna Taylor was taken from her family & community. This Women’s History Month- amplify these calls from women & Black women in particular, for justice & safety and autonomy & ALL the things that we've been fighting for. In honor of Breonna 🕊

📸Snapshots from todays walk out led by Westlake Middle School's BSU. Our youth are powerful, and they know what they will and won't stand for ✊🏾

Black [Oakland] History The uprisings that spurred after the murder of Oscar Grant were not only a moment of reckoning for Oakland– these uprisings were also a pivotal moment in the creation of the Black Organizing Project in 2009.