Building Homes and A New Legacy
I didn’t think I would be alive past 30. So, we all thought we were going to die -- but we didn’t -- and so, if you didn’t die I had a duty to remember why did I start the work in the panther party? So I have to hold on to it and do what I can as an individual.
About
Elaine Brown
Elaine Brown is a former leader of the Black Panther Party, as Minister of Information then Chairman. She is the author of A Taste of Power and The Condemnation of Little B. A Taste of Power, her autobiography, is slated for film production with Alicia Keys to play Elaine, and, was recently published in the UK and France and as an audiobook by Audible.
Elaine Brown Books
A Taste of Power
“A stunning picture of a Black woman’s coming of age in America. Put it on the shelf beside The Autobiography of Malcolm X.”
– Kirkus Reviews
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Narrated by Elaine Brown
The Condemnation of Little B
“The Condemnation of Little B recalls W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk. In 1903, Du Bois mused eloquently on the end of Reconstruction and the agricultural age. Brown’s book arrives in 2002, just as the embers of the civil rights movement have gone out and the powerful industrial age has given way to a high-tech economy with global tentacles. The similarity between these books and the conservative and apathetic times in which they appear is striking. Though the tale of Little B is what will pull in many readers, the most interesting portion of the book is Brown’s criticism of African Americans who have become co-conspirators in the destruction and condemnation of him and other, similar young men.”
-Brian Gilmore, The Washington Post
The continuation of a legacy
The Black Panther Apartments
The Black Panther Apartments is a 79 unit 100% affordable housing complex project, led by former Black Panther chair Elaine Brown brings much-needed housing and retail space to the West Oakland neighborhood with the goal of revitalizing a once-thriving community.
Elaine Brown Music
The Mission of Oakland & the World Enterprises is to launch and sustain for-profit businesses for cooperative ownership by formerly incarcerated and other socioeconomically marginalized people.
OAW Businesses
- The Technology Business Center
- The Fitness Center
- The Neighborhood Market & Urban Farm
- A Taste of Power, Farm to Table Restaurant
- West Oakland Farms
- OAW Food Truck