On the shelves, I saw Danyel Smith’s Shine Bright, Adrienne Maree Brown’s Pleasure Activism, and a host of other titles from people who had lived, worked and built a community in Oakland. The bookstore later moved to Oakland, in the 70s. Founded in 1960 in the Fillmore district of SF, the bookstore carries primarily books written by people across the African diaspora. Next on the tour was a stop at Marcus Books, the nation’s oldest Black-owned bookstore. Outside of Marcus Books, the nation’s oldest Black-owned bookstore. The bakery still offers up a selection of desserts including pineapple coconut cake and sweet potato pie. As we were leaving for the next stop on our tour, cars were lining up outside with people waiting to pick up their orders. But news of the sale has not stopped the sale of baked goods. Owner Kim Cloud is in the works to sell the property due to structural and repair issues with the building. Newton and Bobby Seale met in college in the early 60s. The bakery is seated on the same block as the original Merritt College campus, where Black Panther Party co-founders Huey P. The bakery was the original meeting place and headquarters for the Black Panther Party. The first stop on the tour was It’s All Good Bakery, located on 5622 Martin Luther King Jr. Inside It’s All Good Bakery where a display of Black Panther Party memorabilia is augmented using the Black Terminus AR app. While the tour was only offered as a limited run event during the opening weekend of Wakanda Forever, these stops are available to the public for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Black Panther Party. For this tour, it was a chance to see parts of Oakland that I had either previously visited or read about but never saw up close. “Oakanda” is the phrase used many have adopted to describe Oakland’s emerging Afro-futurism art scene since the opening of Marvel’s first Black Panther movie in 2018.
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