Love.
Education.
Community.
Malcolm X Academy is a full-time K-8 community homeschool modeled after the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School.
Malcolm X Academy was founded with the goal of providing our community with a holistic community school that exists outside of the colonial public school system. Our students and families deserve to learn and grow in community schools committed to serving their basic needs and developing their skills for the future. We believe in the power of love and understand the importance of education as a major stepping stone toward freedom for Black & Brown youth globally.
Most importantly, we believe in carrying on the mission of the Black Panther Party’s 5th Point which states “We Want Education for Our People That Exposes The True Nature Of This Decadent American Society. We Want Education That Teaches Us Our True History And Our Role in the Present-Day Society..” In building the Malcolm X Academy and all its community programs, we are asserting that education is key to providing Afrikan and Indigenous students with neighborhoods free of colonial, carceral, and inherently racist systems.
Help Us Build a future for our children.
Of the more than 300,000 Black students in California:
67% of California Black children do not read or write at grade level.
86% of Black students are not at grade level in science.
31% of Black students have completed their A-G requirements, (necessary for admission to a California State college or university) as opposed to 49% of White students and 70% of Asian students.
77% of Black students graduate high school, in contrast to 88% of White students and 93% of Asian students.
(according to Education Committee of the California Democratic Party Black Caucus)
