Archiving History/Archiving Activism: Women, The Oakland Community School, and the Black Panther Party

Barnard welcomes documentarian and independent scholar Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest, who will share insight into her 30+ year journey as a Black Panther Party historian collecting oral histories, building digital archives, founding collaborative research projects, and designing multi-media content about the Black Panther Party and the many people who were central to the organization’s community program development. Barnard College seniors Brooke Jacobs and Ashe Lewis join LeBlanc-Ernest to share their experiences as 2023-2024 Beyond Barnard Interns in LeBlanc-Ernest’s BPP Women’s Legacy Project. Sponsored by the Critical Collections Community and BLAIS.

Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest is an independent documentarian, scholar, community archivist, and multimedia content creator. Her intergenerational and intersectional Black Panther Party projects center women and the Party’s educational community programs and foreground the voices and experiences of narrators while bridging the divide between institutions and communities.

This talk is sponsored by the Critical Collections Community of Practice (CCC), a space for workers from throughout the Columbia and Barnard library communities to come together and to think together about library collections - broadly defined - in a way that is creative, expensive, and critical.

Current students and others interested in libraries and archives may be especially interested in joining us on April 19, 1230pm. RSVP for Zoom link- email tbryant@barnard.edu