📸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 ✊🏾

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 🕊

#ICYMI: LISTEN to our grantees speak about their local efforts to protect #schools, #students, and #families amid ongoing attacks that threaten public #education: hazenfdn.medium.com/fighting-back-… Arkansas Public Policy Panel Action in Montgomery @YouthRiseTX B.O.P.

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/bop-statement-…

It's been 70 years since Brown v. Board, and we still have a lot of work to do before that promise is fulfilled. Join us next Weds. for our State of Black Education event in Sacramento, where we'll be unveiling the Black Education Report Card. 📌RSVP: tinyurl.com/SOBE24

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.

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. 💜🖤

Thank you, Asm. @ash_kalra, for authoring #AB2441 with us & our co-sponsors. ✨ 🎊We’re proud of our multiple co-sponsors who paved the way for the bill’s passage: Public Counsel Dolores Huerta Foundation Alliance for Boys and Men of Color Disability Rights California B.O.P. Black Parallel School Board Coleman Advocates & @sjli_ca.

We were fortunate to publish an op-ed by Malaika Parker, the executive director of B.O.P., about Black families in Oakland pushing police officers out of school and instituting an alternative pathway of restorative justice. yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/0…

" 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/2024/0…

Malaika Parker, executive director of B.O.P., shares the progress that has been made in ending the criminalization of Black & brown youth in the 4 years since the passage of the #GeorgeFloydResolution for #PoliceFree Schools in Oakland. yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/0…

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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