Date and Time
- Sunday, Oct 4, 2026 2pm - 4pm
Location
Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission St
Details
In October 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, California, igniting a movement that would transform the political, cultural, and visual landscape of the United States and reverberate around the world.
Sixty years later, MoAD Mix: Keeping the Fire — Art, Resistance & the Black Panther Legacy honors that history with an afternoon of art, conversation, music, and community reflecting on the enduring influence of the Black Panther Party.
At the heart of the afternoon, MoAD will be in conversation with Dr. Xavier Buck, founding director and head curator of the Black Panther Party Museum; and artists and former Black Panther Party members Malik Edwards and Gayle “Asali” Dickson. Together, they will reflect on the Party’s history, its extraordinary visual culture, the role of artists in advancing its message, and the ways its principles of self-determination, political education, creativity, and community care continue to resonate today.
The Panthers understood culture as a powerful tool for liberation. Through the unmistakable imagery of The Black Panther newspaper, posters and graphic works, as well as community programs designed to meet people’s everyday needs, the Party developed a language of resistance that was at once political, artistic, educational, and deeply rooted in service.
Keeping the Fire brings firsthand experience into dialogue with historical interpretation to consider the Black Panther Party not only as history, but as a living legacy. What can artists and communities today learn from the Panthers’ understanding of culture as a tool for change? What does it mean to inherit a revolutionary legacy? And sixty years later, what do we carry forward—and what must we reimagine for our own time?
Come gather, reflect, celebrate, and help us keep the fire.
