BOOK RELEASE - "We Were Free For A While: Back to Back in the Black Panther Party" with Professor Steve McCutchen
Join us at 2-5pm on 6/12/22 to discuss the reissued memoir"We Were Free For A While: Back to Back in the Black Panther Party" by Professor Steve McCutchen, Original Black Panther from Baltimore, and accomplished martial artist. He founded Oakland Community School’s BPP Martial Arts Program in 1974 and became a life-long educator of math and ethnic studies. Listen to his lifelong experience as a Panther, and his new book. Please come out and get a copy of the limited first printing of this incredible book!
book will be available @ event
Book reading
book discussion
q&a w/ audience
book signing
limited seating/space
mask + vax please
Professor Steve McCutchen, whose pen name is Lil’ Masai, was an early member of the Baltimore Chapter of the BPP where he joined in 1968. During those early years he was also assigned to Philadelphia, New York and New Haven. In 1972, Steve arrived in Oakland along with other Party members from chapters around the country. In 1973, he was assigned to the Intercommunal Youth Institute, later renamed the Oakland Community School, where he taught math and physical education. In 1974, Steve launched the Martial Arts program for youth and adults housed at the Oakland Community Learning Center. After the BPP, Steve taught math and then Ethnic Studies with the Oakland Unified School District. He is an accomplished spoken word performer, having been a member of the Oakland Writers Guild and International Black Writers & Artists, Bay Area collective. first published In 2008, his book, We Were Free For A While: Back to Back in the Black Panther Party is now back in print! He currently is a member of the Black Organizing Project based in Oakland and Contra Costa county, and now stands side by side with former BPP members and community activists as part of the BPP Alumni Legacy Network more @ BPPALN.org
Location: FALLOUT SF 50-A Bannam Place San Francisco, CA 94133