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| Affiliation | Independent |
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| Name | Elaine Brown |
| Address |
Brunswick, Georgia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
| Born |
March 02, 1943
(81 years)
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| Contributor | The Oncoming Storm |
| Last Modifed | 411 Name Removed
Jun 06, 2009 09:05pm |
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| Info | Elaine Brown became, in 1974, the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party.
"At the top of my agenda is economic and political power for the black residents of Brunswick, and forestalling a development plan that would displace Brunswick's black population."
Elaine Brown is the author of A Taste of Power and The Condemnation of Little B and a former leading member of the Black Panther Party.—A Taste of Power, Brown’s memoir, is being developed for film production by Suzanne de Passe, Emmy-award winning president of de Passe Entertainment.
In 1996, after living seven years in France, Brown moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she established the nonprofit education corporation Fields of Flowers to build a comprehensive model education center for black and other poor children.
Brown is presently writing For Reasons of Race and Belief, the biography of Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) with Karima Al-Amin (for publication by Carroll & Graf).
Brown is Executive Director of the Michael Lewis Legal Defense Committee, supporting the legal appeal of Lewis (“Little B”), who, arrested at the age of 13 for a murder he did not commit, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison (1997).
In 1997, Brown co-founded Mothers Advocating Juvenile Justice, and, in 2002, co-founded and became a Board member of the National Alliance for Radical Prison Reform.In addition, Brown is Vice President of The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, a member of the Brunswick , Georgia , NAACP and the Geechee Council of Georgia, and a partner in Seize the Time, Inc.
Brown lectures at colleges and universities throughout the country on “New Age Racism” and realization of the vision of eliminating racism, gender oppression and class disparity toward an inclusive and egalitarian world society.
Brown, a fluent French speaker, has traveled extensively throughout the world, from China , North Korea , Vietnam , Cuba , Algeria to France , Italy , Russia , Argentina , Uruguay , throughout Central America , the Caribbean and elsewhere.
Brown, who studied classical piano for years and recorded two albums of her original songs, one for Motown records, has attended Temple University , UCLA, Mills College and Southwestern University School of Law.
Brown was raised by a factory-worker mother in the ghettos of North Philadelphia , and is the mother of one adult daughter, Ericka Brown Abram.
Brown’s papers have been acquired by Emory University .
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