Musician, author, and most famously a former leader of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Elaine Brown is still politically active, still a force of nature, even at 78-years old.
"As long as I can walk and talk, I'm going to be putting in my two cents and do something. Even if I am an army of one," Brown said recently.
She says he was moved by a group of children in a housing project where she was giving piano lessons in 1967. The Panthers established free lunch programs for children in low-income neighborhoods, along with free health clinics. But there would be shoot-outs with police which led to the deaths of an Oakland police officer and Black Panthers.
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