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Thrilling confessional candour about the time of the Panthers
ANGUS REID highly recommends a memoir of high literary merit written in concise, finely crafted and fast-moving prose
Elaine Brown, second from right, and other BPP members taken from FBI file Los Angeles, Classification - Civil Unrest
[National Archives/public domain]
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
A Taste of Power
by Elaine Brown
Penguin Modern Classics £10.99
WHEN the revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara launched the Black Institute in 1986 in Burkina Faso, he did so with the words: “Black people must take responsibility for their own history and contribute to universal civilisation.”
Elaine Brown’s memoir A Taste of Power, newly reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic, takes the lead from a black woman’s perspective within the US.
Brown joined the Black Panther Party in 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King. In 1974, when founder, chairman and “minister of defence” Huey Newton went into exile in Cuba he made her the leader, a position she maintained for three years, from 1974 to 1977.
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