For the past year, an exhibit at the Oakland Black Panther Party Museum has educated visitors about the community school model that was launched by the Panthers in 1973 and has since been incorporated into every Oakland Unified School District building.
Recently, the exhibit’s reach was expanded, thanks to the efforts of a Madison Park Academy student and the nonprofit Ocelotl, which worked to translate the exhibit into Spanish.
“The Black Panther Party, they brought communities together, and I feel like projects like this being more accessible to people and open for others, helps bring our new communities together,” said Valeria Cajero Huidor, the 17-year-old student who spent nearly 100 hours translating the exhibit this summer as an Ocelotl intern…