Right now, it's time for the Way Black History Fact. In Today's Way Black History Fact is sponsored by Major Threads for innovative, fashionable sportswear, checkmajorthreads dot com and Today's Ebony Excellent. Sorry, Today's Way Black History Fact comes to us from CBS News and it is indeed an example of Ebony Excellence as well. So I'm going to share a bit. Walking the streets of Oakland with artist Shamari Smith offers more than just a tour of the city.
It's a walk through history. Quote. We are in the Temescal District right now. Forgive me if I didn't pronounce that correctly. I'm not trying to upset anybody in the Bay Area. Okay. That was from Smith. He goes on to say, this neighborhood is very significant for the Black Panther Party as young people. This is where they would
come together and eat and plan. It's a very significant space, a space so important to the neighborhood that the Temascal Telegraph Business Improvement District wanted to honor the history and legacy of the Black Panther Party by constructing a public art art installation. Quote. The Black Panther Parties started in Temescal. Our first office was in Temescal. Huey Newton and Bobby Seal went to school at Merritt College, which is in Temesco.
So it is the genesis of the Black Panther Party party, said Frederica Newton, widow of the late doctor Huey P. Newton. Last year, the Temescal Roots Project Team, along with the Temescal Telegraph Business Improvement District and the Doctor Huey P. Newton Foundation, began searching for an artist and concept. They chose Smith's work and vision for the project. Quote. The name of the piece is the Ten Points to Liberation, and that's in reference to the ten Point program of
the Black Panther Party, said Smith. The monument, once complete, will be a curved piece of concrete, standing eight feet tall and thirteen to sixteen feet in diameter. It will feature the faces of some of the most prominent members of the Black Panther Party, including doctor Huey P. Newton, Emery Douglas, Bobby Seal, and terk Lewis. It will also display the party's ten point program, written by founders Newton
and Seal in the sixties. Now I want to share these ten these ten points with you because I think this is important and this is why it's anchored to the way black history. Fact. First, we want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our black community. I love that. I've always loved that one. Number two we want full employment for our people. Number three. We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our black community. Number four we want decent housing
fit for shelter of human beings. Number five we want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in President's present day society. Number six we want black We want all black men to be exempt from military service. This is number six. No. Sorry. Seven, we want an immediate end to police brutality and murder
of all black people. This is eight. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county, and prison city prisons and jails. Number nine we want all black people, when brought to trial, to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities as defined by the Constitution of
the United States. And number ten we want land, bred housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace, and as our major political objective at United Nations, supervise plebiscite to be held throughout the Black Colony in which only black conomial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of Black people as to their national destiny. So there's a lot more here,
and I do want you to check this out. But in short, they're putting up this fantastic monument that is a testament to the history of the Black Panther Party. And I know you may have been taught to fear them, but please do a little bit more research for some homework, right