WBAI-FM Upcoming Program
Special

Sun, Feb 19, 2023 1:00 PM

COMRADE SISTERS: WOMEN OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY

Black History Month Interview with co-author Ericka Huggins, Party leader, educator and former political prisoner

Tune in for an interview with Ericka Huggins, queer Black Panther Party leader, educator and former political prisoner. She will discuss the new book she’s published with photographer Stephen Shames titled Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party. WBAI producers Stahimili Mapp and Bob Lederer recently interviewed Sister Ericka. In the first hour, she discusses the remarkable women she profiles in the book and the persistent failure of both the Black and white media to portray them, as well as the significance of the Party’s Community Survival Programs and the philosophy and practice of the Oakland Community School that Sister Ericka led from 1973-1981. In the second hour, we’ll cover the treatment of women and queers by the Party and Sister Ericka’s introduction in prison, through self-study, to the vital, centering practices of yoga and meditation, which she has taught to many other folks over the years.

Please consider donating $100 to WBAI and receive in turn a copy of Sister Comrades: The Women of the Black Panther Party.  To request a copy online, go to give2wbai.org .

For more information and for the audio of Part 1 (if you miss it) and later, Part 2, visit outfm.org

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To see our 2020 video interview with Sister Ericka, where she discusses her experiences as a Panther, including the FBI-instigated assassination of her husband John Huggins Jr. and their comrade Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter. both in their 20s; her 2+ years as a political prisoner (including months in solitary confinement); and the Panthers’ public support for the then-new Lesbian and Gay Liberation movement, and reflects on her hopes for the current-day uprising against racist police murders, go to: https://wbai.org/upcoming-program/?id=3983 

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