{"id":1331,"date":"2008-07-19T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2013-01-18T17:48:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T23:48:24","slug":"oakland-community-school-reunion-committee-certificate-of-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/oakland-community-school-reunion-committee-certificate-of-appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Community School Reunion Committee Certificate of Appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Pinkney, Editoral Board and The Black Commentator was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from the Oakland Community School Reunion Committee on July 19, 2008 &#8220;on behalf of the Oakland Community School Family of staff, parents, students and their children, in recognition for your heart-warming assistance, support, and time which greatly helped us to make the Oakland Community School Reunion and Celebration a joyous, wonderful and successful occasion for all at Dimond Park in Oakland, California.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Larry_Pinkney_Certificate_of_Appreciation_Oakland_Community_School_2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1332 alignnone\" title=\"Larry_Pinkney_Certificate_of_Appreciation_Oakland_Community_School_2008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Larry_Pinkney_Certificate_of_Appreciation_Oakland_Community_School_2008-831x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Oakland Community School Certificate of Appreciation for Larry Pinkney\" width=\"595\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Larry_Pinkney_Certificate_of_Appreciation_Oakland_Community_School_2008-831x1024.jpg 831w, https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Larry_Pinkney_Certificate_of_Appreciation_Oakland_Community_School_2008-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil\/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil\/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania\/South Africa). He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton (Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0887392865\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=blackcommenta-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0887392865\" target=\"_blank\">Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker<\/a>, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.struggle-and-win.net\/13201\/43480.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to read excerpts from the book.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Pinkney, Editoral Board and The Black Commentator was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from the Oakland Community School Reunion Committee on July 19, 2008 &#8220;on behalf of the Oakland Community School Family of staff, parents, students and their children, in recognition for your heart-warming assistance, support, and time which greatly helped us to make [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}