#Elaine Brown

[blackbrownfamily]

Black Panther Party For Self Defense

[oldshowbiz]

[valkyries-things]

ELAINE BROWN // ACTIVIST

“She is an American prison activist, writer, singer, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman who is based in Oakland, California. Brown briefly ran for the Green Party presidential nomination in 2008. When Huey P. Newton fled to Cuba in 1974 to avoid criminal charges, he appointed Brown to lead the Black Panther Party. Brown was the only woman to do so. She chaired the Black Panther Party from 1974 until 1977. She dealt with regular sexism because the men were angered by the thought of taking orders from a woman. During Brown's leadership of the Black Panther Party, she focused on electoral politics and community service. In 1977, she managed Lionel Wilson’s victorious campaign to become Oakland’s first black mayor. Also, Brown founded the Panther's Liberation School, which was recognized by the state of California as a model school.”

[bandiera--rossa]

“The Party was dominated by men. Even though there are people who would like to pretend that at some point it was mostly women, that’s just not true.

But I would say that every one of the sisters that I knew were all tough broads. And we had to be tough when we joined the Party. We didn’t join for some man, we were revolutionaries".

Elaine Brown, the only woman at the top of the Black Panthers Party between 1974 and 1977.

[jgthirlwell]

playlist 03.31.23

Poil Poil Ueda (Dur Et Doux) Model/Actriz Dogsbody (True Panther Sounds) Lankum False Lankum (Rough Trade) Liturgy 93696 (Thrill Jockey) The Necks Travel (Northern Spy) Labrinth Euphoria OST (Milan) MIA Mata (Island) October Equus October Equus (MaRaCash) Elaine Brown Seize The Time (Vault) The Lord and Petra Haden Devotional (Southern Lord) Yves Tumor Praise A Lord…..(Warp) Marilyn Monroe/Yves Montand/Frankie Vaughan Lets Make Love OST (Columbia)

[baldhedanxiety]

Great article with link to Elaine's music and 2010 interview where she lays out the truth on COINTELPRO, the revolutionary origins of gangs, and the effect of crack cocaine and police instigation and violence on changing everything.

[gilgamis]

Seize The Time - Black Panther Party - Elaine Brown (1969)

[readyforevolution]

QUEENS OF THE BLACK REVOLUTION ❤️🖤💚✊🏿👊🏿🫵🏿

[odinsblog]

The Panthers’ first and most successful community program was the Free Breakfast for Children Program.

The Panthers started the Free Breakfast Program because hunger and poverty made it difficult for many poor Black children to learn in school. In 1968, most poor children went to school hungry and stayed hungry. The national School Lunch Program provided reduced-price, but not free lunches for poor children, and the national School Breakfast Program was limited to a few rural schools.

To address this need, the Panthers initiated the Free Breakfast Program at St. Augustine’s Church in Oakland in January 1969. Bobby Seale planned the program with Father Earl Neil and Parishioner Ruth Beckford-Smith, who coordinated the program and recruited neighborhood mothers.

The Breakfast Program quickly spread to chapters in 23 cities by the end of the year. Local businesses, churches and community-based organizations donated (sometimes with community pressure) space for the program and nutritious food like eggs, grits, toast, and milk. The Panthers fed more than 20,000 children nationally in 1969. By 1971, at least 36 cities had a breakfast program.

In a 1969 U.S. Senate hearing, the national School Lunch Program administrator admitted that the Panthers fed more poor school children than did the State of California.

The Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program focused national attention on the urgent need to give poor children nutritious meals so they could be successful in school. In 1973, this attention helped lead to Congress’ dramatic increase in funding of the national School Lunch Program so poor children could get free lunches.

The Panther’s Free Breakfast Program spotlighted the limited scope of the national School Breakfast Program and helped pressure Congress to authorize expansion of the program to all public schools in 1975.

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Black Panther Party starts the Free Breakfast for the Children program

[abwwia]

Elaine Brown (USA, b. 1943)

Elaine Brown, the only woman at the top of the Black Panthers Party between 1974 and 1977. “The Party was dominated by men. Even though there are people who would like to pretend that at some point it was mostly women, that’s just not true. But I would say that every one of the sisters that I knew were all tough broads. And we had to be tough when we joined the Party. We didn’t join for some…

[shyjusticewarrior]

Steph: Jason, on a scale of one-to-five, you scored a three.

Jason: Yes! Yes!

Steph: This will limit your dating pool to widows, lady plumbers, and convicts.

Jason: I still consider this a victory.

Steph: Tim, your score is... yeesh! Ya know, scores don't really matter. You should just focus on being you.

Steph: Duke, on a scale of one-to-five, you scored... a twelve?

Duke: My mom was right all along, I am the world's most perfect man.