Please visit our new BCZ website!
"Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.“
- Malcolm X
About the Black Cultural Zone (BCZ)
The Black Cultural Zone Collaborative works with a coalition of residents, government agencies, churches, and grassroots organizing groups to help keep Black folks in East Oakland. Through a strategy of building power, securing land, and directing more dollars to community-driven projects we can secure a foothold in East Oakland that finally allows our neighborhoods to thrive.
Arts and Culture
Using culture as the driving force that can bring community together, the BCZ uplifts and celebrates Black cultural traditions and innovations--stories, blues/jazz/hip hop; dance; theater and visual arts.
Liberation Park Events
Akoma Market
April 3 - 10:00am - 3:00pm
Slamming Sunday Skate
April 3 - 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Community Meeting
Community Members are invited to envision a new fire house, fire training, education center and community complex located at 905 66th Avenue on Saturday, April 16, 2022 @ 10:00 am at Cypress Mandela Training Center.
Vision
Pictures from BCZ community booth at 2018 Malcolm X Jazz Festival.
The BCZ envisions:
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Neighborhoods that are proud to be Black
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Supporting Black-run businesses
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Promoting healthy choices and lifestyles
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Anti-displacement
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Building a stronger East Oakland
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Preserving Black arts and culture
Partners
We are a community that serves our people. BCZ Collaborative partners include:
East Oakland Building Healthy Communities
Media
The Hub
We are proposing a BCZ Hub site where culture can thrive and where services and supports are available that support mental and physical health, small business development and access to housing resources and opportunities.
