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Thrilling confessional candour about the time of the Panthers
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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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