The Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR | TGS x NYU Center for Black Visual Culture Presents: Comrade Sisters | In a Time of Panthers @GreeneSpaceNY | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
Few photographers had the insider access Oakland native Jeffrey Henson Scales did around the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. Capturing rare and intimate portraits of the movement’s leaders in action and in repose, In a Time of Panthers: Early Photographs explores Scales’ newly discovered, rich archive and is more urgent than ever in context of today’s ongoing struggle for racial justice. The book includes a foreword by CBVC Director, University Professor, and Chair, Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, Dr. Deborah Willis, and an essay by Dr. Waldo E. Martin Jr., Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
A long time coming, Ericka Huggins’ and Stephen Shames’ Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party highlights the little-known story of the backbone of the Black Panther 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 organizing, off-stage these same women were building communities and enacting social justice, providing food, housing, education, healthcare, and more. Comrade Sisters is their story. Most importantly, the book includes contributions from over fifty former women members – some well-known, others not – who vividly recall their personal experiences from that time.
Huggins, Shames, and Scales will be joined by original member of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, poet, author, and university professor, Regina Jennings. The event will be moderated by Dr. Deborah Willis.
Presented by The Greene Space and the Center for Black Visual Culture at the Institute of African American Affairs, and cosponsored by the Department of Photography & Imaging, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the NYU Center for Media, Culture, and History.
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Few photographers had the insider access Oakland native Jeffrey Henson Scales did around the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. Capturing rare and intimate portraits of the movement’s leaders in action and in repose, In a Time of Panthers: Early Photographs explores Scales’ newly discovered, rich archive and is more urgent than ever in context of today’s ongoing struggle for racial justice. The book includes a foreword by CBVC Director, University Professor, and Chair, Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, Dr. Deborah Willis, and an essay by Dr. Waldo E. Martin Jr., Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
A long time coming, Ericka Huggins’ and Stephen Shames’ Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party highlights the little-known story of the backbone of the Black Panther 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 organizing, off-stage these same women were building communities and enacting social justice, providing food, housing, education, healthcare, and more. Comrade Sisters is their story. Most importantly, the book includes contributions from over fifty former women members – some well-known, others not – who vividly recall their personal experiences from that time.
Huggins, Shames, and Scales will be joined by original member of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, poet, author, and university professor, Regina Jennings. The event will be moderated by Dr. Deborah Willis.
Presented by The Greene Space and the Center for Black Visual Culture at the Institute of African American Affairs, and cosponsored by the Department of Photography & Imaging, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the NYU Center for Media, Culture, and History.
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