Dr. Ashley Farmer Cited in NY Times Article “The Panthers’ Revolutionary Feminism”
Dr. Ashley Farmer, who is set to join the BU History faculty next academic year, had her forthcoming book What You Got Is a Revolution cited in a New York Times article discussing feminism within the Black Panther Party:
“In her forthcoming book, “What You’ve Got Is a Revolution,” the historian Ashley Farmer describes how Panther women would go on to shape the internal and sometimes internecine debates about gender equality and racial militancy in their women’s groups, in the Panther newspaper and elsewhere. At the same time, they often led and sustained the organization’s most successful community programs — the Free Breakfast for School Children Program, the Liberation Schools and the People’s Free Medical Centers — long past the Panthers’ prime.”
link to full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/movies/the-panthers-revolutionary-feminism.html?ref=movies&_r=0