Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party Panel Discussion Featuring Ericka Huggins and Guests
Wed, Feb 01
|Howard University School of Social Work
Join us for an evening honoring Women of the Black Panther Party. Featuring Ericka Huggins, Steve Shames, Lynn French, Cheryl Dawson, and Hazel Mack Hilliard-learn about the stories that have gone unheard until now.


Time & Location
Feb 01, 2023, 6:00 PM
Howard University School of Social Work, 601 Howard Pl NW, Washington, DC 20059
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About The Event
About Comrade Sisters
Some know the Party's history as a movement for the social, political, economic and spiritual upliftment of Black and indigenous people of colour - but to this day, few know the story of the backbone of the Party: the women. It's estimated that six out of ten Panther Party members were women. While these remarkable women of all ages and diverse backgrounds were regularly making headlines agitating, protesting, and organising, off-stage these same women were building communities and enacting social justice, providing food, housing, education, healthcare, and more. Comrade Sisters is their story.
The book combines photos by Stephen Shames, who at the time was a 20-year-old college student at Berkeley. With the complete trust of the Black Panther Party, Shames took intimate, behind-the-scenes photographs that fully portrayed Party members' lives. This marks his third photo book about the Black Panthers and includes many never before published…
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