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  • Oakland Museum of CA celebrates 50th anniversary of Black Panthers

    10/18/2016 10:14:29 PM PDT · by Lonely Bull · 11 replies
    KGO-TV (San Francisco) ^ | Tuesday, October 18, 2016 | Carolyn Tyler
    OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Fifty years ago this month in Oakland, a revolutionary group was founded and now the city is honoring the Black Panthers with a week of activities and a museum exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California.
  • In Imperfect Compromise, Exhibit Tells of Vietnam Era

    09/06/2004 8:15:24 PM PDT · by neverdem · 12 replies · 406+ views
    NY Times ^ | September 7, 2004 | CAROL POGASH
    OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 5 - Even as the presidential campaign remains steeped in a debate about John Kerry's military service in Vietnam, another highly charged dispute over the Vietnam War has been resolved - albeit imperfectly - between Vietnamese-Americans and a prominent museum here. An exhibit, "What's Going On? California in the Era of Vietnam," opened late last month at the Oakland Museum of California and is scheduled to run through February before traveling to Los Angeles and Chicago. Five years in the making, it tells the wartime story of California during the 1960's and 70's, ripping at wounds among...