Professor Ashley Farmer from the University of Texas at Austin will speak the multi-faceted roles that women played in the Black Panther Party’s organizational and ideological development, and to how they crafted the ideal of the “black revolutionary woman” in popular and political culture. Her research draws from a vast and untapped array of black women’s artwork, political cartoons, manifestos, and political essays that they produced. This talk comes from Farmer’s book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era, a comprehensive history of black women’s political and intellectual contributions to the Black Power movement.

This event will be held in Petteruti Lounge (Room 201) in Brown University’s campus center. Book sale, signing & light reception to follow. Free & open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.