Looking Back, Looking Forward
The Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project
Highlights of 2017
2017 was the first full year of a presidential administration hellbent on stoking the fires of white supremacy, distorting the historical narrative and shredding the social safety net. As a collective of Black women scholars whose work centers on race, gender and social change, IPHP considers itself part of the resistance. We have maintained a commitment to say the name of revolutionary Black women, asserted the importance of an accurate rendering of the past, and continued to celebrate all that the Black Panther Party was able to achieve despite the formidable obstacles they faced.
IPHP grew by leaps and bounds in its first full year. Our initial focus was on publishing informative blog posts aimed at the general public to change the narrative about the role of women and gender in the history of the Black Panther Party. With half a dozen popular jointly authored posts cached in google for posterity, we turned to longer pieces that would speak to the scholarly literature on feminism, social change and the legacy of the Combahee River Collective. Our first group authored peer reviewed article will be available in early 2018 in SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society.
We tackled miseducation in the classroom by providing k-16 educators with a curated list of Panther related materials that they could use to create lesson plans in the #IPHPteachBPP resource list. The list went viral with over 1,000 people downloading or otherwise engaging the materials. Two of our members had the opportunity to present about our mission to Hostos Community College in the Bronx and enjoyed bringing the legacy of an organization that flowered in a community college to a wonderful group of community college students.
We went viral again when the announcement that one of our members would be partnering with the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project to offer a professional development workshop for teachers became public. Hundreds of educators signed up and over 2,000 expressed interest. One of our members wrote a well-received article about how the National Parks Service rescinded funding for a Panther oral history project based at Berkeley. The hunger for Panther history cannot be denied.
In 2018, we will be working on a proposal for our first book. We will continue to curate primary sources on social media as well as update the IPHPteachBPP Resource list based on your feedback. You might also find us writing for your favorite online outlet. Please consider bringing us to your campus or community group to share our work.
Thank you for your support.
Love liberation,
IPHP
Angela D. Leblanc-Ernest, Tracye Matthews, Mary Phillips, Robyn C. Spencer
IPHP grew by leaps and bounds in its first full year. Our initial focus was on publishing informative blog posts aimed at the general public to change the narrative about the role of women and gender in the history of the Black Panther Party. With half a dozen popular jointly authored posts cached in google for posterity, we turned to longer pieces that would speak to the scholarly literature on feminism, social change and the legacy of the Combahee River Collective. Our first group authored peer reviewed article will be available in early 2018 in SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society.
We tackled miseducation in the classroom by providing k-16 educators with a curated list of Panther related materials that they could use to create lesson plans in the #IPHPteachBPP resource list. The list went viral with over 1,000 people downloading or otherwise engaging the materials. Two of our members had the opportunity to present about our mission to Hostos Community College in the Bronx and enjoyed bringing the legacy of an organization that flowered in a community college to a wonderful group of community college students.
We went viral again when the announcement that one of our members would be partnering with the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project to offer a professional development workshop for teachers became public. Hundreds of educators signed up and over 2,000 expressed interest. One of our members wrote a well-received article about how the National Parks Service rescinded funding for a Panther oral history project based at Berkeley. The hunger for Panther history cannot be denied.
In 2018, we will be working on a proposal for our first book. We will continue to curate primary sources on social media as well as update the IPHPteachBPP Resource list based on your feedback. You might also find us writing for your favorite online outlet. Please consider bringing us to your campus or community group to share our work.
Thank you for your support.
Love liberation,
IPHP
Angela D. Leblanc-Ernest, Tracye Matthews, Mary Phillips, Robyn C. Spencer
IPHP's One Year Anniversary Retrospective
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